Quotes About Wealth

Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted that they couldn't even see the stars.

Even more important than saving money is making it.

I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.

What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations.

Yo no tengo tribulaciones, dispongo de dinero como un rentista, no tengo jefe, ni mujer, ni hijos; existo, eso es todo. Y esta tribulación es tan vaga, tan metafísica, que me da vergüenza.

Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

I like to work as little as possible to make the most money possible.

Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.