Quotes About Wealth

a mon's real wealth isnae measured in lands, coin, or fighting men, but in the giving and receiving of a true and lasting love.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

E che cosa ce ne faremo della ricchezza? La posso mangiare? Dormirò meglio quando sarò ricco? Non andrò forse più in fabbrica, e che cosa farò tutto il giorno? No, Borkhausen, io non voglio diventare ricco e in questo modo, poi, certamente no. Una simile ricchezza non vale neanche un morto.

Nothing has any value but money. Money. But in point of fact money has no value; the greatest possible enjoyment has to be squeezed out of it moment by moment. Why save oneself up for tomorrow? Who knows where the dollar will stand, who knows whether we shall be still alive tomorrow?

He had the tendency, unfortunate for a new member of the committee, to like if not the rich themselves, at least their activities and surroundings, and to dislike the poor; a woman in rags toting a baby, barefoot children, made him feel sadistic rather than compassionate. His socialism, then, had the impatience and unfriendliness of a fashionable doctor forced to attend a tramp run over in the street.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.

Without water the desert was worthless. With water the productive possibilities of that great territory were enormous. Without Capital the water could not be had. Therefore Capital was master of the situation and, by controlling the water, could exact royal tribute from the wealth of the land.

But, darling, you're my world, my life." She kissed me. "And what will you do? You have no job—nothing. How will you live? I can't bear to think of you going back to those cheap little jobs. Here with me you are safe. I can look after you, protect you. I can give you the world—anything you want." I remembered something I had read. "What does it profit a man," I quoted, "if in gaining the world he loses his own soul?

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Money isn't everything, but the lack of money isn't anything.

He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower. So he reasons, because, as I said, he is born an aristocrat;—so I don't believe, because I was born a democrat.

do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Wealth and opinion were practically worshipped before Washington opened his eyes on the sun which was to light him to his deeds; and the worship of Opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.

A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.

Buying things is only sometimes about owning the things. Buying often is simply about what 50 Cent observed: being ABLE to buy. Having less means hearing "No, you cannot have that," and we loathe being told what we can and cannot do.

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

If the dollars you lose in taxes are important to you, then what about the dollars you may be spending to perpetuate boxes you could get out of?

It's just as unrealistic to merge your property as it is to try to merge your minds. And  property  is  very  important.  The  control  of  your  own  property  is  the  most tangible expression of your freedom.

This is a world where the educated get richer and the uneducated get poorer.

Without meaning to, you usually end up with a board made up of the richer members of the congregation.