"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
— Oscar Wilde

"I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them."
— Adrienne Rich (Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972)

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
— George Bernard Shaw

"The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started."
— John Updike

"And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way."
— Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus)

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth."
— Petrus Borel (Champavert, le lycanthrope)

"To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak!
And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one’s lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.
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— Petrus Borel (Champavert, le lycanthrope)

"In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse."
— Petrus Borel (Champavert, le lycanthrope)

"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. "
— Warren Buffett

""People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.""
— Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich)