Quotes About Wealth

100 invested at 7 percent interest for 100 years will become 100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

Greed puts out the sun.

Jobs had been famously stingy when it came to charities, arguing that the most charitable thing he could do was increase Apple's value so that shareholders had more money to give away to the causes of their choice

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

These are hard times. Imperial death-pangs are never pleasant; and it seems we find ourselves in the midst of the geo-political playground when the empire is thrashing about in a vain attempt to maintain its idolatrous pursuit of wealth and power, seeking to be "great again," seeking to demonize those whose own violence it fears.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

Mulholland Drive is a two-lane, serpentine road that runs along the crest of the mountains and is named after the guy who built a two-hundred-mile aqueduct to drain water from the Northern California delta down to Los Angeles just so developers could get rich building homes in a place that otherwise is inhospitable to human life.

The stinking rich are fucking cheap," Green said. "Which is how they stay rich and why they stink.

Mulholland Drive is a two-lane, serpentine road that runs along the crest of the mountains and is named after the guy who built a two-hundred-mile aqueduct to drain water from the Northern California delta down to Los Angeles just so developers could get rich building homes in a place that otherwise is inhospitable to human life. The whole city is a carefully constructed lie built on greed.

Hong Kong" means "fragrant harbor" in Chinese. The fragrance is the smell of money.

By virtue of the fact that they expect so much less than poor Americans—they don't care about movies, clothes, and cars—they are more content than the poor people in America.

After trying out a number of ways to reduce inequalities and failing, I was gradually forced to conclude that the decisive factors were the people, their natural abilities, education and training. Knowledge and the possession of technology were vital for the creation of wealth.

You have to be in the right state of mind to see opportunities and not fall into the old, negative habits of allowing others to put information about reality into your head that holds you back from the wealth you so richly deserve.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

Fortunes are wrung from the smallest of things That once were ignored, turning men into kings.

When the toiler bends and labors till his sweat turns into pearls, 'Tis a nobler decoration than the coronets of earls.

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

You can't have everything -- where would you put it?

Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

Don't talk nonsense," Esmé said crossly. "If we give money to poor people, then they won't be poor anymore.