George Herbert Quotes

Good workemen are seldome rich.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

I was determined not to remain poor.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

Not sayin' I'm the richest man alive, but I'm in the game.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

I am definitely not rich.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.