Quotes About Wealth

Gamblers are either rich people who don't give a shit if they lose, or suckers who actually think they can win.

So she hadn't been smart with her money, Malory admitted with a windy sigh. She didn't see the point of letting it lie in some bank when it could be turned into something lovely to look at or to wear. Until it was used, money was just paper. Malory tended to use a great deal of paper.

after cash or valuables.

Há pessoas que têm aqui uma bela vida - comentou baixinho - Plantam jardins em canteiros e fazem piqueniques no verão. - E algumas pessoas vivem em palácios e não conseguem ter uma boa vida.

Love's a lie, an illusion created by weak women and conniving men. An excuse for the middle class to breed and their betters to ignore so they can marry within their own station and build more wealth.

My family's just as important as yours, and I've got as much money and prestige." "Money and prestige don't buy good manners. You aren't showing any at the moment.

Ever since Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher lightened all the regulations for making money, the gap between the haves and have not has grown. Inspired by a 1980's Hollywood movie, the mantra for Wall Street became "greed is good.

The Buddha stated that "happiness is the greatest wealth.

there's no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just means you're rich and insecure or poor and misinformed.

His talent was appearing to understand obvious realities that other people could not see, expressed with the kind of self-assurance that can only come from extreme wealth.

American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves.

The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class it just means you're rich and insecure or poor and misinformed.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

At some point, Wax mentioned how appalling it seemed that those brilliant minds who could invent miracle medicines and nuclear fission and dazzling computer special effects, they had such a complete lack of imagination when it came to spending their money: granite countertops and luxury cars. Talking about that stuff, Wax driving, the madder he got, you could watch the speedo creep up past eighty, ninety, a hundred.

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

With the elevator stopped between floors, my view is about a cockroach above the green linoleum, and from here at cockroach level the green corridor stretches toward the vanishing point, past half-open doors where titans and their gigantic wives drink barrels of champagne and bellow to each other wearing diamonds bigger than I feel.

So long as my checks cleared, I'd no interest in figuring down to the penny how poor I always was. For the same reason, I've put off writing a book on writing. I didn't want to be faced with how little I could offer on the subject. How stupid I remained after all this time and practice.

The things you own end up owning you