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| Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich, | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. (1 Timothy 6:17) | | Bible | |
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| Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. | | Robert Orben | |
| Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. | | Seneca | |
| For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them | | Plato | |
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| Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
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| If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. | | Socrates | |
| If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. | | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence. | | Victor Hugo | |
| If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. | | Edmund Burke | |
| In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. | | Confucius | |
| In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing | | Anatole France | |
