Quotes About Wealth

There are still many affluent and famous people who believe in the simplicity of life. They live in peace without wanting it or needing it.

bohemian's ability not to worry about money always starts with your money rather than his.)

Early in the twentieth century, E.E.Cummings was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be.

I had landed in the lap of the only kind of luxury I have ever cared about – a wealth of opportunity.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

My son, be rich and live your own life! Tell yourself that you're the incarnation of an ancient aristocracy. Model yourself on the feudal barons. You're a warrior

Men dig tons of earth to find an ounce of gold.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

[On Hollywood:] There are millions to be grabbed out here, and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.

So if money is fiction, finance capital is the fiction of a fiction. That's what all those criminals trade in: fictions.

Such was the extent of his power. His fortune bent reality around it. This reality included people—and their perception of the world, like mine, was also caught in the gravitational pull of Bevel's wealth and warped by it.

Rather than a block of granite, wealth resembles a river basin with multiple tributaries and branches.

Por eso –me decía medio gritando– el dinero no dice nada de la gente que lo tiene. Nada. El dinero no dice nada de sus dueños. A diferencia de tener, no sé, talento, que sí define a una persona. La relación del dinero con el individuo es completamente accidental.

There is a better world," a man said. "But it's more expensive.