Quotes About Wealth

There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

He said it as if 'very rich' was a nationality; as perhaps it is.

The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money. Then when they have money they don't know what to do with it. They forget all the old virtues, which weren't real virtues anyway. They think the only virtue is to make more money and to spend. They can't imagine that there are people to whom money is nothing. That the most beautiful things are quite independent of money.

Why should people have money if they don't know how to use it?

In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I

One of the commonest symptoms of wealth today is destructive neurosis; in his century it was tranquil boredom

I hate what G.P. calls the New People, the new class people with their cars and their money and their tellies and their stupid vulgarities and their stupid crawling imitations of the bourgeoisie. (...) The New People are still the poor people, it is the new form of poverty. The others hadn't any money and these haven't any soul.

This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.

Out of his other property, out of all the things he had collected, his silver, his pictures, his houses, his investments, he got a secret and intimate feeling; out of her he got none.

money is made for the free-hearted and generous, and where is the injury of taking from another, what he hath not the heart to make use of?

Today, nearly everyone is much better off. Yet the rackety existence of the majority is as far removed from the security enjoyed by the truly wealthy as it was in Victorian times.(...) The wealthy can pass their lives without contact with the rest of society. So long as they do not pose a threat to the reach, the poor can be left to their own devices. Social democracy has been replaced by the oligarchy of the rich as part of the price of peace.

They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.

The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.

My dad's filthy rich, and even though we're Irish Catholic I'm an only child. I've got more money than you do so I'll work for free. No charge. A free law clerk for three weeks. I'll do all the research, typing, answering the phone. I'll even carry your briefcase and make the coffee. I was afraid you'd want to be a a law partner. No I'm a woman, and I'm in the South. I know my place.

A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together

I've lost my love for money. It's the curse of the devil.

SUDDEN AFFLUENCE triggers a desire for the better things in life.

Sure it will. That's part of it, Abby. It's a cutthroat business where the weak are eaten and the strong get rich. It's a marathon. He who endures wins the gold. And dies at the finish line.

It's a sad culture. People live in a frenzy. They work all the time to make money to buy things to impress other people. They're measured by what they own.

Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection.

You spend more on fancy coffee than I do on meals. Why can't you help the poor, the sick, the homeless?

Twenty million bucks?" he repeated, as if dumbfounded.