"There are two ways to increase your wealth.  Increase your means or
 decrease your wants.  The best is to do both at the same time."
 - Benjamin Franklin

"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only."
 - Henry David Thoreau

"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
 - Henry David Thoreau

"Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed."
 - Frédéric Bastiat

"In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and
 no security of wealth."
 - Ludwig von Mises

"It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich.
 If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the
 capitalist order, everyone would become poorer."
 - Ludwig von Mises

"The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of
 anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the
 consumers are better supplied than they would have been in
 the absence of the entrepreneur's effort."
 - Ludwig von Mises

"A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing
 to serve the consumers in the most efficient way."
 - Ludwig von Mises

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
 - Oscar Wilde

"To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by
 introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and
 silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good
 cheer of private families, by obliging them to keep an unnecessary
 number of kitchen utensils." - Adam Smith

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
- Plato

"He has the most who is most content with the least."
- Diogenes

"The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest."
- Democritus

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
- Epicurus