The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
—Bruce Grocott
We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.
—Louis D. Brandeis
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
—Errol Flynn
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G. K. Chesterton
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
—Oscar Wilde
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
—Don Marquis
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
—Oscar Wilde
This is what the world honors: wealth, eminence, long life, a good name. This is what the world finds happiness in: a life of ease, rich food, fine clothes, beautiful sights, sweet sounds. People who can't get these things fret a great deal and are afraid, wear themselves out rushing around on business, spend night and day scheming and scrutinizing. Man lives his life in company with worry, and if he lives a long time, then he has spent that much time worrying. This is a callous way to treat the body.
—Chuang Tzu
The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.
—John Henry Jowett
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
The earth was created for rich and poor in common. Nature knows no rich. She creates us all alike and alike she encloses us in the sepulchre. What more resembles one dead man than another dead man?
—Saint Ambrose
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough, and when you have enough, you have self-respect.
—Gail Sheehy
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
—Benjamin Franklin