Quotes About Wealth

Today we are once again living in an era of extraordinary wealth concentrated in the hands of a few people, with the net worth of the wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans almost equal to that of the bottom 90 percent combined.

The answer is quite startling: 70 percent of the rise in average family income went to the top 1 percent.

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

Solomon's Laws: 8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel .

The acquisition of material things has become the hallmark of the shallow life.

Floating below me were five-hundred-pound wallets with teeth.

At the ratings agency Standard & Poor's, where they've knowingly mispriced risk, one guy messages another: 'Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters,' adding the emoticon ':O)'.

The root cause, simply put, is globalization, and the resulting monopolization of wealth by a global elite.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Successful stock-picking isn't mysterious, but it does take some time, effort, and analysis. And the effort is worthwhile because stocks are a convenient and important part of most investors' portfolios.

What should you do? Become an investor with a time horizon greater than one year (the emphasis is on "greater"). Give your investments time to grow.

Every person has short-term goals. Some are modest, such as setting aside money for a vacation next month or paying for medical bills. Other short-term goals are more ambitious, such as accruing funds for a down payment to purchase a new home within six months. Whatever the expense or purchase, you need a predictable accumulation of cash soon. If this sounds like your situation, stay away from the stock market!

Maintaining a positive cash flow (more money coming in than going out) helps you increase your net worth.

market capitalization (or market cap).

Leave your jewels in the bank," / the Countess told the girls. "The only thing worth / wearing's a revolver." It seems she shot one officer point-blank. / The whole world's foundering. A smoke trail tells / of the fates of Caesar, Alexander. Those who kissed their hems. / Tara's plowed under. Troy eventually fell. / Surely the English will get what's coming to them?

The existence of well-to-do little neutral countries is a pointer to what global war is really all about

city of twenty-three million. Half of this huge number of chilangos—as the Mexico City dwellers call themselves—are classified as enduring dire poverty, many enjoying extreme wealth, and an estimated fifteen thousand children live on the street.

or flying over the chaos in their private helicopters.

saw that a lack of money was not the problem in this country—but it seldom is in the hellholes of the world.

there is a substratum of criminality even in Mexico's prosperous places, especially in the prosperous places, and it takes unexpected forms.

Só se dá aquilo que se possui.

Nadie puede dar lo que no le pertenece.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.