Andrew Carnegie, the 19th century Scottish-American industrialist, famously said: "The amassing of wealth is one of the worse species of idolatry. No idol more debasing than the worship of money…The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2013/2013/01/philanthropy?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_joy_of_giving_especially_if_youre_rich