Quotes About Wealth

How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it!

Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

I buy when other people are selling.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

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Se riesci a contare i soldi, vuol dire che non hai un miliardo di dollari.

Being wealthy might seem to be "supremely enviable," he wrote, but "the business of wealth-getting, and of wealth-enjoyment, when viewed at close range, turns out to be a very different matter.

I would urge the principle of self-limitation in regard to wealth," and he made this "plea to the wealthy": The first step to take, it they would set themselves right, is to live in the midst of superfluous wealth as if they were not the possessors of it; that is, to take for their own use only what they require for the essentials of a civilized life, and to regard the rest as a deposit for the general good, of which they themselves are not to be the beneficiaries.

Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.

I wanted," she counts on her fingers, performing the sitcom of her tragedy, "Tribeca loft, expense account, designer clothes so haute they don't look it, my very own Tesla, summer home in the Hamptons I'm too busy to use." "You wanted money," says Justin. Brianna: "It went down with the towers.

anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

Neither of them had any particular longing for material wealth except as it would aid them in this life's work of parental responsibility. In their eyes it was far more important that each of their children grow up to be noted for honesty and integrity than that any one of them should make a mark in the world. Both worked unceasingly all the days of their lives and taught their children to love work." 4

In fact he thought the only intelligent thing for a young man without money to do was to marry a young lady who had money.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Industrialization finally drove the West out of a mercantile economy and into a capitalist one. Before industrialization, the most important factor in determining the wealth of a country was its volume of trade, or exports minus imports. After industrialization, the value of what a country could produce became more important.