“The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.”
– Dallin H. Oaks
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”
– Steve Jobs*
“Wealth is a jealous master who will not be served half-heartedly and will suffer no rival – not even God. . . In return for unquestioning obedience wealth promises security, power, position, and honors, in fact anything in this world. . . Along with this, of course, everyone dresses in the height of fashion, the main point being always that the proper clothes are expensive – the expression ‘costly apparel’ occurs 14 times in the Book of Mormon. The more important wealth is, the less important it is how one gets it.”
– Hugh Nibley
“This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming.”
– Lance B. Wickman
“My greatest fear is that people here will get rich and forget God.”
– Brigham Young