Quotes About Wealth

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work