Quotes About Wealth

It's okay to be eccentric, as long as you are rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless." "I

It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads.

Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating, your conception of reality.

Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the glances, the conversations that can't be heard. How do you get to be so full? And so full of only meaningful things?

Maybe luxury is the easiest matrix to pass through. Maybe nothing is easier to get used to than money.

then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness—or potential for goodness—a person possessed.

I am not as ingenious as these people. No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless.

I don't see anything ingenious about poverty like this. I don't see anything ingenious about having ten children when you can't afford one." Fern put his glasses back on and smiled at me sadly. "Children can be a kind of wealth," he said.

When money's scarce life is a daily emergency, everything is freighted with potential loss, you feel even the smallest misstep will destroy you. When there's money, it's different, even a real emergency never quite touches you, you're always shielded from risk. You are, in some sense, too big to fail.

No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless.

The best richness is the richness of the soul;

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

The Fon of Dahomey was foremost among those African peoples who resisted the suppression. Not only was the internal enslavement of their prisoners perceived as essential to their traditions and customs, the external sell of their prisoners afforded their kingdom wealth and political dominance. To maintain a sufficient "slave supply," the king of Dahomey instigated wars and led raids with

De girl baby ain't born and her mama is dead, dat can git me tuh spend our money on her. Ah told yo' before dat you got de keys tuh de kingdom. You can depend on dat.

When he paraded his possessions hereafter, they would not consider the two together. They'd look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them.

I'm about this shmoney.

IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.

Money means a lot of respect. It means a lot of accomplishment and a lot of hard work.

Things are done according to money these days.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

This career affords me the opportunity to accumulate money, power and respect.