Quotes About Wealth

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

La posesión del conocimiento, si no va acompañada por una manifestación y una expresión en la acción, es como acaparar metales preciosos: una cosa vana y tonta. El conocimiento, como la riqueza, debe ser usado. La ley del uso es universal, y aquél que la viola sufre por haber entrado en conflicto con las fuerzas naturales." El Kybalión.

The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals — a vain and foolish thing. Knowledge, like Wealth, is intended for Use. The Law of Use is Universal, and he who violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces.

She would wait until she wandered around this room filled with people she knew and loved, until she had wished every last one of them a new year filled with hope and dreams and yearning. She would not wish any of them success or prosperity or wealth because the magic was in the dreaming. She knew that now. America had taught her that. How wise, to talk about the pursuit of happiness and not of happiness itself.

We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

May I never be chained by the lifestyle of a householder But attain Dharma wealth in the midst of ordained monks; Free of conceit, may I make offerings to the [Three] Jewels And look on all beings with [the eyes of] compassion.

She has the complexion of a wealthy infant.

The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

This is how I became rich: I was at home at four-thirty on a Friday afternoon. Rich? Rich for many. Comfortable for some. Comfortable well-off I would say.

Jacob laughed along with Chip in a fake, Great Gatsby, old-money sort of voice, obviously mocking my brother.

while money couldn't always buy you happiness, a lack of money always brought anguish.

where you live is just geography. And you can't measure happiness in dollars and cents.

obscene wealth, was often more of a curse than a blessing.

Being wealthy when no one else is is like being the only one at the party with a drink.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

It is bad enough when rich Christians shoe little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.

Hear that, Mr. De Pfeffel Cantab or whatever your name is? That's the sound of the villa in the South of France you could have bought crumbling to dust.

Yes, we have some cash.

A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.

The simple math of trickle-down economics," said Steve. "It's expensive to be poor.