Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes1 you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting2 remorse3.
Chilo
Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction4 is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted5 mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.
Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament6 of quite a different kind.
Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin7 Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Though I am grateful for the blessings8 of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude9 with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Rex Stout10 (1886 - 1975)
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous11.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
Wisdom outweighs12 any wealth.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
