"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

"What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money."

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

"Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it."

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."

"There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible"

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them."

"The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden."

"Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost."

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."

"Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

"Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business … has been a menace to … American society."

"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"

"There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does."

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”

“All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth.”

“He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.”

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

“Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.”