Quotes About Wealth

We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals and laws to direct the masses by fear or hatred, and, in doing so, have managed to create a system of wealth and remuneration that has concentrated the vast majority of the world's wealth in the hands of a select few.

Today she is the richest woman in the world; she has everything she could want; she loves and is loved,

Envy is felt more strongly between near equals than those widely separated in fortune. It does not make sense to envy the Queen of England.

The greater benefits earned by a few could be justified, I realized, if the inequality improved the situation of the worst-off.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

Expressions such as infamous capital, vile exploiters, the admirable working man, the socialisation of wealth, &c., always produce the same effect, although already somewhat worn by use.

He had finally got money, he had taken off his moustache, he was driving a car that few could afford, he was a new man. But the world failed to recognise him as such.

My impression is that the products of our art colleges are not over-endowed with coin of the realm.

The more you consume the less you live

My son, a true king is never concerned with what his subjects bring him, whether bags of silver or bags of straw, because he knows he possesses the entire kingdom. Look beyond this stage: everything is yours; it always has been.

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." —Halford E. Luccock

If the other guy's happy, then there's still money left on the table.' " A

Naomi Klein among others has called the globalisation era 'crony capitalism', revealing itself not as a huge 'free market' but as a system in which politicians hand over public wealth to private players in exchange for political support.

What is the ethical or philosophical justification for a basic income? A fundamental claim is that it is an instrument of social justice that reflects the intrinsically social or collective character of society's wealth. In the writer's view, social justice is the most important rationale for moving towards basic income as an economic right, although it is complementary to the other two major rationales, namely freedom and economic security.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.

Constancio C. Vigil: "Desdichado del hombre que finca su fortuna en la caída de un árbol".

Golborne is up to this point in his career a Stanford and Northwestern alumnus with a stellar corporate résumé, but he's never been someone who's had to think of himself as a man of the people. He's never had to make the concerns of the poor his own, and he's never known what it's like to be the public servant of people who want him to be strong and who are deeply suspicious of him at the same time.

Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it's your master.

I've learned that when a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience ends up with the money and the man with the money ends up with experience.

Wealth — any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Even when money seemed to be material treasure, heavy in pockets and ships' holds and bank vaults, it always was information. Coins and notes, shekels and cowries were all just short-lived technologies for tokenizing information about who owns what.

impatiently and looked around the room. It wasn't anything a millionaire's wife would get excited about. Tony, my