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Quotes About Wealth

Money lets you be who you really are.
~ Clifford Thurlow
I was a stranger in the strange land of the rich and was coming to see that they do things differently there.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Imagination was true power: it worked transformations wealth and influence never could.
~ Clive Barker
Mi madre me enseñó que el mercado era una oscura y siniestra máquina que trituraba y devoraba cien destinos por cada individuo afortunado al que recompensaba
~ COETZEE JOHN M.
By the end of his presidency—and the sixteen-year run of Dixie dominance in Washington—income inequality and the concentration of wealth in the federation had reached the highest levels in its history, exceeding even the Gilded Age and Great Depression. In 2007 the richest tenth of Americans accounted for half of all income, while the richest 1 percent had seen their share nearly triple since 1994.8
~ Colin Woodard
Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased. Some
~ Colson Whitehead
Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes.
~ Colson Whitehead
Her isim mal, nefes alan sermayeydi; etten ve kemikten kâr.
~ Colson Whitehead
When black blood was money, the savvy businessman knew to open the vein.
~ Colson Whitehead
High-minded idiocy pitted against the power of coin.
~ Colson Whitehead
Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased.
~ Colson Whitehead
Who knew the havoc and ruin they'd perpetrate if allowed to run free among decent people. Best to keep them all in here, on this island, bought for twenty-seven bucks from the Indians, the story went. Twenty-seven bucks went a lot further in those days.
~ Colson Whitehead
Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?
~ Colson Whitehead
When you come into a rich man's house, the only place to split is in his face.
~ Colum McCann
They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead.
~ Colum McCann
She might have been a for­tune hunter, you know. Not an es­pe­cially good one. War­ren laughed. I have no for­tune. But you will one day. Daniel shook his head. It's never too soon to take pre­cau­tions. Ah yes. Lord save me from lovely young women.
~ Victoria Alexander
Too many guilty people get off scot-free if they have money or influence.
~ Victoria Thompson
In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.
~ Vikram Chandra
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
For of those to whom much is given, much is required.
~ Vince Flynn
The hugely uneven distribution of wealth itself was forcing the country toward a boiling point. Add
~ Vince Flynn
Once one acquired everything money could buy, it all became a game. A petty competition between people with insecurities that they mistook for ambition and superiority.
~ Vince Flynn
People with good lives are hesitant to jeopardize them. People who have nothing, on the other hand, are often no better than wild animals." She nodded and took
~ Vince Flynn
Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead.
~ Virgil