Quotes About Wealth

settle for what the crown granted them—still a fortune beyond imagining

predicted that it would take him at most two years to reach the Spice Islands and return to Spain with ships bulging with precious cargo.

While conspiracies have been well-documented as taking place throughout history, in every epoch and location, immediately when you begin to speak about the conspiracies that are happening now, you are labelled a 'lunatic.' This is because there exist very powerful, super-wealthy families with strong connections to the Demiurge who want to hide the fact that he is covertly taking control of Planet Earth.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

yacht club tastes and a rubber ducky budget.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

William Graham Sumner, "That It Is Not Wicked to Be Rich," in What Social Classes Owe Each Other, 1884

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

Simplicity is a complex concept, but at the core is voluntary limitation of our outer wealth so that we can have greater inner wealth.

Somewhere out there, you knew, wealthy people were barricaded in their fortresses, fed and warm, if not happy, but soon you stopped thinking of them. You stopped thinking about other people at all.

what could be less satisfying than stealing from someone so endowed that they never even noticed what you'd taken?

Moody had never thought much about money, because he never needed to. Lights went on when he flipped switches; water came out when he turned the tap.

They may have three or four cars instead of one or two, and they may have two television sets instead of one,

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100 000 in one day in a posh boutique.

Capii che Nuto aveva davvero ragione quando diceva che vivere in un buco o in un palazzo è lo stesso, che il sangue è rosso dappertutto, e tutti vogliono esser ricchi, innamorati, far fortuna.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is environmental generosity, without direction, without 'for me' and without 'for them.' It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, and constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

She'll get all wooed by some smart, rich, dumbface, handsome, millionaire guy who doesn't care about money but has a lot of it. He'll probably have a private plane that goes to his private island that probably has dolphins. This means that Jen, on top of being happy and smart and pretty and sweet, will most likely get to name and play with...pet dolphins. You can't compete with dolphins .

La mort d'un pauvre et le crime d'un riche ne font pas de bruit

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Stupidity is the prerogative of the wealthy. Pauper's field is crammed with smart guys.

A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph.

In pre-colonial Africa, men who had sexual relationship with older men almost always married a woman later in life and had children. Exclusive homosexuality would not have been and is still not a viable option for Africans who value wealth and patronymic extension through marriage.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.