Quotes About Wealth

Time, though you've probably lived all your life believing the contrary, is not money. If you run out of money, there are many ways to scrounge up more. If you run out of time—well, that's all she wrote.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's third wife Day.

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you're staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn't it make sense to order the best Scotch that money can buy before you go to the theater in your private limousine?

Egy magánkönyvtár a jellemanalízis kincsesbányája.

It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed.

I'm the only millionaire zoologist there is.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.

If it could, capitalism would make due with white rats.

Just as wealth is no longer measured by the ostentation of wealth but by the secret circulation of speculative capital, so war is not measured by being waged but by its speculative unfolding in an abstract, electronic and informational space, the same space in which capital moves.

He who has everything will keep what he has. From him who has nothing, even that will be taken away. Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide. Shrivelled anus, short-windedness, limp member, short-sightedness, angioplastied ventricle, urethral polyps - but a clear, hard head.

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace

Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost? The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue; ours speak only of commerce and money.

He had held out a handkerchief brimming with jewels, but she wouldn't take them.

Imagine anyone asking Henry VIII or Elizabeth to settle a bill!

It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.

But they left their treasure, gold and more gold. Some of it is found- but the finders never tell, because you see they'd only get one-third then: that's the law of treasure. They want it all, so never speak of it.

Your husband certainly love money,' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.

les 8 900 milliards de dollars que les gouvernements des États industriels ont versés en 2008-2009 à leurs banques respectives correspondent à soixante-quinze ans d'aide publique au développement... (p. 87)

Why was money worth everything when you had none of it, and nothing when you had too much?

I visited a manufactory in Manchester with my father. I saw that the wretched creatures enslaved to the machines were as repetitive in their movements as machines. They were distinguished only by their unhappiness. The great wealth of the manufactories is not for the workers but for the owners. Humans must live in misery to be the mind of the machines.