Quotes About Wealth

We are literally Two Americas, remarkably out of touch with each other— the fortunate living the American Dream but lacking any practical comprehension of how the other half are suffering, month in and month out, unaware of the enervating toll of economic despair on the unfortunate half, many of whom just two or three years before had counted themselves among the fortunate.

In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally distributed, who actually governs? —ROBERT A. DAHL, Who Governs?

Two trends are primarily responsible for today's hyperconcentration of wealth inAmerica— the collective decisions over time by America's corporate power elite to take a far bigger share of business earnings for themselves, and the increasingly pro-rich, pro-business policy tilt in Washington since the late 1970s.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The country was populous and wealthy, and patterns of landholding there complex and fragmented. What more could a lawyer want than a place in which endless occasions for dispute arose among a large population with plenty of money to spend on litigation?

Our houses are palaces to those who have none.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

I would rather they did not speak of it at all, until I am out of the district." Mrs. Bennet was all amazement. "Until you are out of the district, child! What else are people to speak of when they hear you are to marry a man so rich, so highly placed in society, so... rich?

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

It seemed monstrous that people who could only afford cheap houses should find themselves automatically surrounded by ugliness.

Poverty is only ennobling, it is implied, if one has escaped it.

I watched wealthy men and their wives and dates dancing and playing cards and making deals: I will admire you exactly as much, no more or less, as you admire me. I will love you in the strictest moderation.

She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.

They were merchant families, mostly, descendants of Englishmen who'd gotten rich trading with the tsars and sultans and rajahs of long ago, then come over to America because all their money didn't stop the aristocrats from snubbing them. Now their great-grandchildren just made a few investments here and there and kept charitable institutions the way an average Joe keeps a pet.

If you've...got someone within ten minutes' walk who can make you laugh and someone else within a five-minute walk who can help you mourn, you're a millionaire.

That's why you're never going to find a rich person on death row.

Paul and Olga enjoyed a gilded exile with their two daughters, in a home created together that was "worthy of a Pompadour or a Du Barry.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.