Quotes About Wealth

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Capital is taxed much less than labour; subsidies going to capital, the rich, and middle-income earners greatly exceed the benefits going to the precariat and underclass.

There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.

It's regrettable that some people have to make a substantial living at others' expense.

We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change, the substantive problems of the world that, if were solved, would create immense wealth and opportunity that would cascade across countries.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

Brazil is a country that has rich people, as you have in New York City, as you have in Berlin or in London. But we also have poor people like in Bangladesh or in African suburbs.

If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.

I see the ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people, 'cause the rich people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetizing, you know what I'm saying, wealthy, appetizing. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I'm saying? It's gonna be like — there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

You know it's funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.

Unfortunately for the composers of the time, wealthy Renaissance merchants were more likely to commission a painting than a composition. The painting could be owned, repeatedly shown off, and later resold, unlike the music. The financial incentive to commission a composition, which can be enjoyed by any audience member, was weaker. Paintings were closer to private goods, and musical performances were closer to public goods.

The grass may be greener on the other side but the the water bill is higher.

The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You're generation lacks the drive.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

One of the blessings of being rich is the blessing to be charitable

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.