Quotes About Wealth

Never before have so many people had so much and felt so dissatisfied. No wonder we often feel so dissatisfied. No matter how much we have, it can't compare to what others appear to have.

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal.

Our family has agreed to increase the percentage of what we give each year. Instead of increasing our standard of living, we're increasing our standard of giving.

I thought about Vic being rich. She already had the fuck-you attitude; fuck-you money might be too much.

Last word from her was that Paris, half of Omar's money, and none of him was suiting her just fine." She

Yet he worked unceasingly, amassing a considerable fortune in the process, at turning clients who were indubitably criminals loose upon society. He always assumed that the words from a witness' mouth were perjury, unless he had put them there himself. He expected his friends eventually to double-cross him, and was neither surprised nor hurt when they occasionally did. Yet this did not interfere in the least with his very sincere liking for them.

Millions of Bible-reading Christians who today call themselves charismatics do not believe in health and wealth teachings.

Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness. ... And we assume that if only we could acquire some of those same symbols, we would be nuch happier.

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

money kill justice

Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.

The things money could buy weren't the reward; the reward was to feel lifted above everyone else,

Wealth seems to ebb and flow about the world like the tides, but the how and the why are beyond knowing.

When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

That is all the money in the world at my disposition." She dropped the stilted words into the court like pebbles into a calm pool, wrapping her strange dignity around her like a cloak.

Estate duties, as you are no doubt aware, are calculated on the prices ruling at the date of death. It is therefore sometimes quite important to expire at the right moment.

Does the silkworm expend her yellow laborsFor thee? For thee does she undo herself?Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships,For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute?

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

It does not require an economist to realise that a nation's wealth lies in the wealth of her citizens. Moneyed people are an asset to a nation, paupers are a liability. Take a man with an income of ten thousand a year, he is a valuable asset. The State can depend upon him for a definite yearly income. Then the man dies and the property—instead of passing to his son and continuing to yield the same yearly income to the State—has to be broken up and sold to pay death duties.

Yes," says Bryan. "If Edgeburton wants some extra dibs he's only got to write a letter to his grandfather and he gets a postal order for five bob by return . . . he doesn't ask for it, even." "I hope not." "No," says Bryan. "He doesn't need to ask. Edgeburton just writes and says 'How are you?' and that sort of thing and the money arrives." "Edgeburton must write a very good letter.

He's in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He's a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder how long it will be