Quotes About Wealth

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

There is a lot to be learned. There is a lot to be experienced. There is a lot to be gained, And there is a lot to be realized. But most of all there is a lot to be thankful and grateful for. There is no greater wealth in the world.

I may not be popular, but I have nice friends. I may not be rich, but I have what I need. I may not be liked by many, but love by those who matter!

Never let the things you want, make you forget the things you have. If you are truly rich, count the number things that you have that money can't buy.

Quit complaining and give thanks period. Being grateful increases your net worth 10, 000,000 fold.

There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.

Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned

Gems were a way of showing your status, and his wife had always been a perfect model for everything he wanted to display.

You're swimming in a sea of abundance.

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.

Why were we hungry? my stomach cried. Even then I understood that if the rich could only spare all the hungry a bowl of rice, they would be less rich but they would not starve. If the solution was so simple, why was anyone hungry? Was it only a lack of sympathy?

The word that identified what we did not possess was "money," . . . The other word was "votes," so that together "money votes" was "open sesame" to the deep caverns of the American political system.

Now a guarantee of happiness—that's a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. Someone would surely win millions, but millions would surely pay for it.

Even then I understood that if the rich could only spare all the hungry a bowl of rice, they would be less rich but they would not starve.

But Little Saigon as strategic hamlet is not just physical real estate. It is also mnemonic real estate, for according to the informal terms of the American compact, the more wealth minorities amass, the more property they buy, the more clout they accumulate, and the more visible they become, the more other Americans will positively recognize and remember them. Belonging would substitute for longing; membership would make up for disremembering.

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity.

Even poor people in America had refrigerators, not to mention running water, flush toilets, and twenty-four-hour electricity, amenities that even some of the middle class did not have back home. Why, then, did I feel poor?

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in

was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.

For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

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I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.