Wealth Ethics Quotes

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter.

No man can make a million dollars honestly.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

Money has no moral opinions.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.

Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.