These are some of my favorite quotes and about money and weath. The first one by Gail Sheehy really sums it up.
“… that classic American trap – which is, you suddenly get a windfall and then, instead of living pretty much as you have, only a little better and with lots more security behind you – with money there to do something amazing every once in a while when it really counts – you suddenly leap up to meet that income level and always bubble up to it, and then are constantly running to keep up with this tremendous overhead you’ve established”
– Gail Sheehy author of Passages
“I believe that happiness lies less in how much you have than in which way you’re headed.”
– Andrew Tobias author of The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need
“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement”
– Aristophenes in the Funeral Oration of Perecles
“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community”
– Andrew Carnegie
“There are people who have money and people who are rich”
– Coco Chanel
“I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better”
– Sophie Tucker
“Wealth is not without it’s advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
“To turn $100 into $100 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable”
– Edgar Bronfman, former Chairman of Seagram Co.