Aristotle Quotes about Wealth

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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Men, Wealth, Expenditures

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Character, Fool, Wealth

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

Aristotle

Way, May, Wealth

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.167

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Aristotle

Sake, Wealth, Making Money

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1732, Princeton University Press