Quotes About Wealth

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

The two greatest enemies of the equity fund investor are expenses and emotions.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep repeating the process of good thinking.

rey del antiguo Israel, declaró: «De más estima es el buen nombre que las muchas riquezas, y la buena fama más que la plata y el oro».2 Pero la buena reputación es el reflejo del carácter de la persona. Si la reputación es como el oro, entonces tener integridad es como ser dueño de la mina. Preocúpese menos por lo que otros piensan y préstele atención a su carácter interno.

O dinheiro não muda o homem, simplesmente o desmascara. (Henry Ford, p. 107)

Money is like manure. If you let it pile up, it just smells. But if you spread it around, you can encourage things to grow.

MONEY DOESN'T CHANGE MEN, IT MERELY UNMASKS THEM. IF A MAN IS NATURALLY SELFISH OR ARROGANT OR GREEDY, THE MONEY BRINGS THAT OUT, THAT IS ALL."—HENRY FORD

I have found this to be true. Someone once asked me why he should adopt an abundance mentality, and he was surprised by my answer. I told him that if you believe in abundance, that's what life gives you. If you believe in scarcity, then that's what you get.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others. —ANDREW CARNEGIE THE

No one becomes rich unless he enriches another.

They were delivered to mansions remodeled into country clubs, boarding schools, retreats for the insane, alcohol cures, health farms, wildlife sanctuaries, wallpaper factories, drafting rooms and places where the aged and the infirm waited sniffily for the angel of death in front of their television sets.

He had several rings, a gold identification bracelet, and a gold bracelet watch, and he carried a heavy gold cigarette case, set with jewels. The case was empty, and Evarts furnished him with cigarettes as they talked.

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it's hard to meet people.

His beginnings were obscure, and, as everyone knows, he got rich enough to be an ambassador.

I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.

First, I had time, but no money; then I had money, but no time. Finally, I had time and money, but no health to make use of my wealth.

Don't care too much for money, because money can't buy happiness.

A ugly man with money often has his arm a beautiful lady who is willing to spend it.

Don't throw money at the problem - walk away from it. You'll be wealthier from it down the road.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue, and no greater loss than to forget it.

Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and children, like the rain, whose causing the vegetation to grow, pleases the husbandmen, then it withers away so that you will see it become yellow, then it becomes dried up and broken down; and in the hereafter is a severe chastisement and (also) forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure; and this world's life is naught but means of deception.

There's nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.