Quotes About Wealth

A bank book makes good reading — better than some novels.

It is unthinkable that a rich and enlightened society should permit its unfortunate members to starve in the midst of plenty; but once the justifications are admitted the difficulties still stand undiminished.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S. Truman

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

Wir alle sind das, wovon wir uns bewusst sind. Gefängnisinsassen wissen von ihrem Gefängnis. Menschen, die viel Geld auf der Bank haben, aber dessen nicht bewusst sind, sind trotz ihres Reichtums arm. Wir haben nur das, wovon wir bewusst sind. Deshalb beruht unsere Größe oder unsere Kleinheit auf unserem Bewusstsein. Selbst eine erleuchtete Seele zu werden, beruht nur auf einem Unterschied im Bewusstsein. (s. 181)

Spending more money ensures greater happiness. This is the confused thinking of the duped consumer.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

Distant shareholders have no understanding of the damage caused by their investments.

A rich man has no need of character.

The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

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Money is the seal and stamp of success.

She could not be princess by wealth or standing. So she was mad to have learning whereon to pride herself. For she was different from other folk, and must not be scooped up among the common fry.

Beard concluded that those who supported the Constitution did so because the new government would guarantee their wealth and the payment of debts owed to them, while those opposed wanted to stay with the more impotent and forgiving Articles of Confederation.

Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all to stuff their pockets with more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes.

Reading about Shelley and Byron I get awfully fed up, realizing that these men never did a day's work in their lives; they lived off the system, were free to travel all around Europe with entourages if necessary, never wrote about a guy earning a living. That is not the world I knew, that is not the world I want to be a part of, and by and large it's not a world I'm interested in. How

It's easy to clean up when you got money.

Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards.