Quotes About Wealth

The wise men and men of noble character in the past who were wealthy and exalted were rare. From time to time there were men who received high rank and large stipends, but they did not pursue such things themselves; because the genius and virtues of these men were not hidden, they were promoted by their superiors, and thus only received these things unavoidably. But because they were not always in tune with the minds of men of little caliber, many of them were slandered and driven away.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Memory, or rather experience -- which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the change which it has wrought in you and which has made you different-- experience is the basic nutrition also for a work of literature (but not only for that), the true source of wealth for every writer (but not only for the writer), and yet the minute it gives shape to a work of literature it withers and dies. The writer, after writing, finds that he is the poorest of men.

Creating a space and time for reflection and imagination and study presupposes an accumulation of wealth, and behind every accumulation of wealth there are obscure lives subject to labour and sacrifices and oppression without any hope. Every project or image that allows us to to reach out towards another way of being outside the injustice that surrounds us carries the mark of the injustice without which it could not have been conceived.

El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendrá.

L'uomo contento non aveva camicia.

Language is the treasury of the poor.

The university graduate has been schooled for selective service among the rich of the world. Üniversite bitirenler dünya vars?llar?na seçkin hizmetlerde bulunmalar? hedefiyle okutulmuÅŸlard?r.

P7- citizens have learned to think rich and live poor.

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

Dodju tako ponekad vremena, kada pamet zacuti, budala progovori, a fukara se obogati.

An economy made of paper could never be as strong as one of bricks, guns and widgets.

No man can lose what he never had.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Ja v?laties k??t bag?ts, jums j?dara tr?s lietas: agri j?ce?as, smagi j?str?d? un j?izdara v?rt?gs atkl?jums.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Just got to go make do with what you got give to you when you born. Look like some people get so much more than others. Even get some money, which this huge world loves. But . . . I have seen sometime, in this world we live in, that most things balance out, equalize out, in the end. Yes, in the end. Cause some people take nothing and make a whole heap out of it. Just like some people take everything, another whole heap, and let it run down to nothing. Human, chile, human.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Material betterment has gone hand in hand with spiritual decline.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.