Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

Ever wonder why billionaires always need more and more money? It's a power trip.

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

… the mere money-making American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.