Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.
He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
