E. W. Howe Quotes

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

I think it's weird when you become rich at 40.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

If I work 60 hours a week, for example, and I make much more money than someone who works 40 hours a week, is my standard of living higher? I suppose it depends on your values. If I do not have time, because I work 60 hours a week, to spend time with my children, I may not consider myself to have a high standard of living.

Make money, get rich. Enrichissez-vous.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

We must learn this rule, which is true alike of rich and poor — that no man and no class of men ever rise to any permanent improvement in their condition of body or of mind except by relying upon their own personal efforts. The wealth with which the rich man is surrounded is constantly tempting him to forget the truth, ad you see in family after family men degenerating from the position of their fathers because they live sluggishly and enjoy what has been placed before them without appealing to their own exertions. The poor man, especially in these days, may have a similar temptation offered to him by legislation, but this same inexorable rule will work.

Our parents’ incomes play a larger role in our personal economic fortunes than is true for other peer countries.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.

I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.

And one thing for me is I've never been motivated by money.

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.

I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.

If you go into the old covenant, do you think that the Jewish people believe that you should be broke? They believe in wealth.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

No one ever died with too much money.