Wealth Pursuit Quotes

No salaries should be allowed the public Officers, but that their necessary expenses should be defrayed. This would make Men, he said, more desirous of obtaining the Esteem of their Country-men, than avaricious or eager in the pursuit of wealth.

Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

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

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

It's very American, making a lot of money.

Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities, and how much money they can make.

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.