Quotes about wealth

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

Theodore Roosevelt

Tolerance and understanding won’t ‘trickle down’ in our society any more than wealth does.

Muhammad Ali

For tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy; democracy of the needy: none of them common good of all.

Aristotle

There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor.

Nelson Mandela

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Benjamin Disraeli

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

Michelle Obama

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

Ronald Reagan

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We have the men–the skill–the wealth–and above all, the will…. We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt