Echoes

Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words: industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Wealth and honor are what every man desires. But if they have been obtained in violation of moral principles, they must not be kept.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

Work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

That is not riches, which may be lost; virtue is our true good and the true reward of its possessor. That cannot be lost; that never deserts us, but when life leaves us. As to property and external riches, hold them with trembling; they often leave their possessor in contempt, and mocked at for having lost them.

Virtue is serious business; everything else is farce.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it. But money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will."

The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.