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It’s OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart.
S. Truett Cathy (1921-), Chik-fil-A restaurants founder
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart
John Wesley (1703-91), English evangelist and founder of Methodism
You feed your family or you feed your ego
Jim Rohn, Author, Business Coach & Motivational Speaker
I have heard confessions to every type of sin – except covetousness
Catholic Priest
I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.
Selwyn Hughes, English pastor and author
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President of the USA
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
BC Forbes
He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
Sir Roger L’Estrange (1616-1704) English pamphleteer and author
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
George Savile, Complete Works, 1912
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), English writer
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer (1899-1937), American Editor
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist and first billionaire
Take it from me. I went down the road of ‘be all you can be, realize your dreams,’ and I’m telling you that fame and fortune are not what they’re cracked up to be. We live in a society that seems to value only physical things, only ephemeral things. People will do anything to get on these reality shows and talent contests on TV. We’re obsessed.
Madonna (1958-), American pop music icon
I’ve just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.
Aristotle Onassis (1906-75), Greek shipowner and financier
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
John Wesley (1703-91), English evangelist and founder of Methodism
The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ’s return, both of which are imminent.
Randy C. Alcorn, ministry leader and author
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Juvenal
It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.
Thomas Watson
A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter and sculptor.
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Michael Leboeuf (1942-), American business author
Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.
T. Guillemets
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett (1930-), American investor, businessman and philanthropist
I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.
Vince McMahon
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87), American abolitionist and clergyman
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John Calvin (1509-64), French theologian and reformer
Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.
William Corbett (1680-1748), English composer
There’s no need to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.
Colonel Sanders (1890-1980), Kentucky Fried Chicken founder
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
Jack Yelton
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
Logan Pearsall Smith
I know how hard it is to be rich and still keep the milk of human kindness. Money has a dangerous way of putting scales on one’s eyes, a dangerous way of freezing people’s hands, eyes, lips and hearts.
Dom Helder Camara (born 1909), Brazilian theologian and scholar
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford (1863-1947), American industrialist
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles Schwab
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