I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days.
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.
What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.
I've learnt that money comes very quickly, but it leaves even quicker.
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.
The year 2000, I was the richest for three days. So I know up and down.
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.
