Quotes About Wealth

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they've got none to spend. That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing.

Yes there were two great groups of dogs wrangling for the bitching-goddess: the group of the flatterers, those who offered her amusement, stories, films, plays: and the other, much less showy, much more savage breed, those who gave her meat, the real substance of money. The well-groomed showy dogs of amusement wrangled and snarled among themselves for the favors of the bitch-goddess. But it was nothing to the silent fight-to-the-death that went on among the indispensables, the bone-bringers.

My shoes are made of Spanish leather, My socks are made of silk; I wear a ring on every finger, I wash myself in milk.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

the country had become too uncongenial. The gentry were departing to pleasanter places, where they could spend their money without having to see how it was made.

Who are the aristocrats now — who are chosen as the best to rule? Those who have money and the brains for money. It doesn't matter what else they have: but they must have money-brains — because they are ruling in the name of money." "The people elect the government," he said. "I know they do. But what are the people? Each one of them is a money-interest.

Money one always wanted.

Make money! Make it! Out of nowhere. Wring it out of the thin air! The last feat to be humanly proud of!

And again, there was the wage-squabble. Having lived among the owning classes, he knew the utter futility of expecting any solution of the wage-squabble. There was no solution, short of death. The only thing was not to care, not to care about the wages. Yet, if you were poor and wretched you had to care. Anyhow, it was becoming the only thing they did care about. The care about money was like a great cancer, eating away the individuals of all classes. He refused to care about money.

The point is not: take all thou hast and give to the poor, but use all thou hast to encourage the industry and give work to the poor.

Clifford had never been primarily out for money, though he made it where he could, for money is the seal and stamp of success.

And what then? What did life offer apart from the care of money? Nothing.

That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

The gentry were departing to pleasanter places, where they could spend their money without having to see how it was made.

And this is all the God the grandsons of the Pilgrim Fathers had left. Aloft on a pillar of dollars.

Not to encounter a true teacher will result in being led around by your feelings and emotions. The case of the foolish son of a wealthy man leaving home with the family treasure and throwing it away like so much rubbish is truly a pathetic one.51 Likewise, to the extent that we are familiar with what the work of the tenzo is we must not squander it.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health?

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

Mr. Funkhouser, I believe I can make money for you.

business to be paid a salary of over a million dollars a year

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that inspired Dickens to write his immortal novels. This desire inspired Sir Christoper Wren to design his symphonies in stone. This desire made Rockefeller amass millions that he never spent! And this same desire made the richest family in your town build a house far too large for its requirements. T

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.