Quotes About Wealth

Rich kids—they can never admit they're rich.

Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.

Some starve. Some eat. Disparity is simply the order of things. It's only when fat men make sauce out of other's starvation that it becomes a sin.

Rich men don't look at people like us as human beings; we're pieces they move, levers they pull to get what they want.

Thomas watched wealth, it struck Ester, the way some men watched a sunset.

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.' 'God made you that, Aline.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

his jewelry was custom designed for the very rich and tasteless, people who would find it necessary to buy hundred-thousand-dollar necklaces to wear to a thousand-dollar-a-plate charity dinner, and never grasp the irony.

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Only old retired coots and gold-digging bimbos live in Florida.

Balzac had written, "Behind every great fortune, there is a crime," which was both a cliché and a lie. However

At forty-four, though bitter, she was nonetheless grateful that she hadn't been rendered penniless. Having clawed her way to the top once before, she'd been left with just enough assets to start the climb again. This time she would not make the mistake that had led to her ruin; she would not marry.

She distrusts those who prefer power to money

Beneficiary of a seven-figure trust fund, destined to inherit a greater fortune

Parker possesses the resources to acquire whatever he wants

He is the CEO of Refine, a multibillion-dollar division of a mega-valued conglomerate.

and about two hundred thousand dollars' worth of rings.

Money's neither dirty nor noble. It's a neutral substance, an inevitable part of civilization.

Cornell knew that most people thought he was strange, even creepy. He'd been diagnosed with Asperger's disorder and various forms of autism. Maybe all those diagnoses were correct or maybe none were. His IQ was very high, and he'd made a lot of money while sitting alone in a room, developing apps that had proved enormously popular. When he was rich, no less than when he'd been poor, people thought he was strange, even creepy.

His wealth and connections open a door

Life insurance proceeds and the sale of two houses

Lacking television, radio, or internet, she hoards seven CD players with six-disc magazines