Wealth Prioritization Quotes

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.

The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.