Quotes About Wealth

Do you think the businessman who found the pearl was sweating over its cost? An obviously ridiculous question! What about the one who found the treasure in the field—perhaps crude oil or gold? No. Of course not. The only thing these people were sweating about was whether they would "get the deal." Now that is the soul of the disciple.

Abundance is not about possession; it is utterly, completely, and solely about gratitude.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

La riqueza es algo común y corriente, la sabiduría en cambio rara.

How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.

I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

Wealth is commonplace, but wisdom is rare.

Capitalism is non-denominational.

finances are even stranger. Funded

the palace.

Unde e mintea, acolo-i si comoara.

I come for wisdom, and he offers me wealth

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

If you became wealthy and would nevertheless spend some of your time doing just what you now do for a living, you are fortunate indeed.

You might already be able to tell that I was born with a silver spoon up my ass. I offer no apologies.

I mean that in a consumer society, the family is the means by which most people become tied to a cycle like this: go along with things, so long as you get enough to buy more and more things even though the whole world is exploited so that a relatively small number of people in this country - US! - can live well. (Our own land and air and water are also plundered in the interests of blind consumerism.)

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

But as abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity, so it was with me

And now, increasing in business and in wealth, my head began to be full of projects and undertakings beyond my reach; such as are indeed often the ruin of the best heads in business.

abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity

I had more wealth, indeed, than I had before, but was not at all the richer; for I had no more use for it than the Indians of Peru had before the Spaniards came there.

I had more care upon my head now than I had in my state of life in the island where I wanted nothing but what I had, and had nothing but what I wanted; whereas I had now a great charge upon me, and my business was how to secure it.  I had not a cave now to hide my money in, or a place where it might lie without lock or key, till it grew mouldy and tarnished before anybody would meddle with it; on the contrary, I knew not where to put it, or whom to trust with it.