Anna Quindlen Quotes

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

I'm livin' high on the hog, and let me tell you, hogs make a terrible foundation.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

All about my riches/ My name should be Richard

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

I preach that anybody can improve their lives. I think God wants us to be prosperous. I think he wants us to be happy. To me, you need to have money to pay your bills. I think God wants us to send our kids to college. I think he wants us to be a blessing to other people. But I don't think I'd say God wants us to be rich. It's all relative, isn't it?

Think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

I make a lot of money in my life, 50.000 dollars are nothing.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

You're 'wealthy' if you don't worry

I think the key is - other icons told me this - you don't have to chase the money. The money is going to chase you. That's part of success. That's part of the blessings.

Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.

The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.