Quotes About Wealth

Mises showed that the end of private property would mean the end to economic rationality.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Coloro che combattono per la libera concorrenza non difendono gli interessi di quelli che sono ricchi. Vogliono che sia lasciata mano libera a uomini sconosciuti, che saranno gli imprenditori di domani e la cui ingegnosità renderà più piacevole la vita delle generazioni future.

Every sort of economic organization needs not only a mechanism for production but also a mechanism for distributing what is produced.

El sistema de ganancias hace prosperar a esos hombres que han tenido éxito en llenar las necesidades de las personas de la mejor y más barata manera posible. La riqueza solo puede adquirirse sirviendo a los consumidores. Los capitalistas pierden sus fondos tan pronto como no los invierten en aquellas líneas en las que satisfacen mejor las demandas del público.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.

They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.

If all I could ever have is you, I'd be a billionaire.

Money doesn't have beliefs about you. You have beliefs about money. —Dr. Joe Vitale

If you don't pay more now for a pair of shoes than you used to spend on a car, your prosperity consciousness needs work. —RANDY GAGE, 101 KEYS TO YOUR PROSPERITY, WWW.MYPROSPERITYSECRETS.COM

Los juegos de azar hay que considerarlos como estériles para la cultura. Ninguna riqueza aportan ni al espíritu ni a la vida. Pero otra cosa ocurre cuando la porfía exige destreza, habilidad, conocimientos, valor y fuerza.

It must be pretty awful for a white man to learn that one of the things wrong with this society is that it is not based on dollars directly or alone, but dollars denied men who are black so dollars can go into the pockets of men who are white. It must make white men ponder a kind of weakness that will make them deny work to black men so that work can be done by men who are white.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

The fact is that the money in our bank account was once something else: work and enterprise. And that money will become something else: possessions and experiences.

Money brings about good consequences – helps us live valuable lives – only when joined with 'virtues'. Virtues are good abilities of mind and character.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

Oh, by the way, the plot: it almost slipped my mind. Charlie French bought my mother's pictures cheap and sold them dear to Binkie Behrens, then bought them cheap from Binkie and sold them on to Max Molyneaux. Something like that. Does it matter? Dark deeds, dark deeds. Enough.

Where there had only been fearful emptiness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there is now unfolding a wealth of vitality. This is not a homecoming since this home had never before existed. It is the discovery of home. —ALICE MILLER

bloated industrials, who were piling up fortunes abroad while they were wrecking their country at home.

Why does wealth make dull people so much duller?

By-ends represents the kind of man who has lifted himself up through craft and manipulation, loves all that is sophisticated and refined, and uses his religious affiliation to advance his own career. His earthy bank account is all that matters. He has no account in Heaven and no checkbook backed by true faith upon which to draw. 4.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds,"Yes, but I have something he will never have — enough.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!