Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

It is profit that makes a wise man loose his senses.

… an avalanche of avarice

It would be necessary to eliminate the excessive regard and esteem for wealth, because the craving for riches erodes the desire for true glory, prevents the cultivation of the virtues and results in countless seizures of what belongs to others, as well as many other dishonorable actions.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

… the mere money-making American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune.

I always want more. I will always want to earn more.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

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

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Money is evil.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.