Quotes About Wealth

I approach the double glass doors of the world-renowned Riptide Auction House. Nerves flutter in my belly with the idea that I'm about to do everything my mother warned me never to do—I'm about to place myself in the middle of the world that destroyed our family. But I'm also trying to save the only family I have left.

We'd had money in Italy before we'd fled after my father's disappearance, and did so with nothing.

You're also collecting an archive of the absurdity of value.

Money. Man is always motivated by money, my dad said to me once. It can work for us, or it can enslave us. Even when we have much, we feel like we need more. No matter how much we have.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

But you just keep wagging your pricey manicure and that horse-choking diamond bracelet at me. That helps make it all seem so much more right.

The upscale neighborhoods in Blue Sky Hill weren't all lily white anymore, but you could be sure their kids didn't wear our kind of clothes, or get free lunches at the Summer Kitchen, or pick up used books and magazines down at the Book Basket store, or go to the public school. These days it wasn't about what color you were, but how much money you had. The same, only different. It was still people not wanting to be with people who weren't their kind.

Alicia, do I sell fertilizer?" Massie asked. "No, why?" Alicia fell for Massie's setup. "Then why do you think I give a crap?

An accountant is someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

assets = liabilities + owner's equity or

owner's equity (net worth) = assets - liabilities Basically,

Treasure isn't trouble 'cause it's so hard to find. Treasure is trouble because it reveals a man's heart.

Typical of Hell, thought Chen: overdone and ostentatious and overwhelming, designed to cow an already beaten populace. "Wow" he said. The demon grinned sympathetically. "It is a bit excessive, isn't it?" "Who does it belong to?" "My employer is the First Lord of Banking. Head of the Ministry of Wealth.

had often occurred to Chen how shattering it must be for someone who had devoted their whole life to material possessions to suddenly find themselves in a world where status depended on entirely more intangible matters. He

There was a tendency for men following the same trade to live near each other, so some wards drew their wealth from plutocratic residents, such as the goldsmiths or the mercers, while others were home to poor artisans such as the tallow chandlers.

there is always something fundamentally wrong with a rich man or a king who pretends to be religious. Let the poor and helpless invoke the gods. That is what the gods are for—to distract the attention of the weak from their otherwise intolerable miseries. When an emperor makes much ado about religion, he is either cracked or crooked.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people ... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.