Quotes About Wealth

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

To know you have enough is to be rich. —The Tao Te Ching

Buffett knows that a down market is when investors should be buying, not selling.

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

if she'd learned nothing else over the past few years, she knew that things were not always as they appeared. Success and money had nothing to do with happiness. Hustle and bustle didn't mean better. And simple wasn't synonymous with boring.

Yo no me revuelco en el barro -observó Bipa-. Y no hace falta ser muy lista para darse cuenta de que aquí la gente se muere de hambre. Así que no veo por qué debería tener en cuenta la opinión de alguien que vive en una casa de hielo y dice que es mejor ser blanca y flaca que estar sana y tener un hogar cálido y confortable. Es una idea absurda y estúpida.

C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick

She had always thought of it as being rich, having so many books she has yet to read.

Bisabuelo arriero, abuelo hacendado, hijo rentista y nieto pordiosero»

if you were offered $400 million to never do the stuff of your work again, would you be bummed about it, despite your riches? If you would, then it's time to ask a follow-up question. If you did land a windfall, and could still do the stuff of your job, what parts of your job would you change? Given that you'd never have to work a day in your life, what would you do more of and what would you shove off your plate?

Successful people know that hours, like capital, can be consciously allocated with the goal of creating riches—in the form of a changed world, a life's work—over time. Indeed, successful people understand that work hours must be more carefully stewarded than capital because time is absolutely limited. You can earn more money, but the mightiest among us is granted no more than 168 hours per week, and it is physically impossible to work for all of them.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

SnowAngel: who's Bill Gates?

Not everybody likes bunnies and trees, but everybody likes executive housing complexes.

Some of the world's richest and most famous people flew on the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg,

Yet his salary was considerably more than Magellan's, the highest of any in the fleet:

he was the chief accountant and representative of the king's treasury.

enabled Cartagena to step in at any moment and prevent Magellan from enriching himself

On subsequent voyages, Portuguese ships brought gold, animal hides, elephant tusks—and slaves.

the House of Fugger, for which he worked, had enough money to finance ten expeditions, or more;

legitimately or not, he could sell it for enough to buy a small house; he could live off the proceeds

the rest of his life. An ordinary seaman might attain a modest degree of wealth