Quotes About Wealth

With a six-figure income guaranteed for the rest of his life, Lamar could enjoy the twelve-hundred-dollar tailored suits that hung so comfortably from his tall, athletic frame.

When you leave, Mr. Gant, our offer of $7 million comes off the table. You go home with zero.

His wife and kids would stick by him, weather the embarrassment and move on. It was, after all, Texas, a land where pasts were easily forgotten if one picked up the pieces and made more money. There was also a certain admiration for outlaws.

Capps earned over nine million last year and paid a pittance in taxes.

Humo de hidalguía, la cabeza vana y la bolsa vacía».

Greed is a strange animal

Hatred of McDover. And money. I convinced our mole that this could lead to riches. I just hope I don't get anyone killed.

He missed being broke, because when he had nothing he owed nothing and most of his classmates were in the same boat. Now that he had an income he worried constantly about mortgages, the overhead, credit cards, and realizing the American dream of becoming affluent. Not wealthy, just affluent.

Vonn Dubose may have ice water in his veins, but Claudia McDover did not. Her insatiable appetite for cash was finally fading. She had enough. She and Phyllis could travel the world in style and laugh about the Indians.

He was ashamed of his greed and embarrassed by his stupidity. It was sickening what money had done to him.

She spent a fortune on clothes and jewelry, more than you would expect from a person with her salary. She got a new secretary every other year because she didn't want anyone to get too close. She was aloof, distant, always tough, but she never suspected me because I kept my distance.

The magnificent jewels Henry II had showered on her were reassigned to Mary

Sumptuousness of this kind was unknown in Scotland. James V's belongings had been more modest.

The Guises were one of the most powerful noble families in France.

England was so much richer and more powerful than its northern neighbor.

Her mother had amassed twelve sets of tapestries, one on the theme of the Twelve Labors of Hercules

a crown set with rubies and an emerald.

Wine is good in itself, but not for a man in a fever. If our souls were in perfect health, riches and authority, and strong powers of mind, would be very suitable to us: but they are weak and diseased, and require so great a grace of God to bear these advantages well, that we may be well content to be without them.

I have very little," he said, and he spoke as if having little were the greatest fortune, and the greatest buffer against the future, that a man could wish.

This country is founded on some very noble ideals but also some very big lies. One is that everyone has a fair chance at success. Another is that rich people have to be smart and hardworking or else they wouldn't be rich. Another is that if you're not rich, don't worry about it, because rich people aren't really happy. I am the white male living proof that all of that is garbage.

Social self-determination does not and cannot exist in a capitalist society: capital, in all its forms, is the negation of self-determination.

A fascist is anyone who, seeing a man working hard and earning money, says, He's getting more than we are, let's pass a law to take it away from him!

A fascist is anyone who, seeing a man working hard and earning money, says, He's getting more than we are, let's pass

They were members of Maine's very small money class. Their business, as they ridiculously called it, didn't make a cent, but they didn't need to make money; they were born rich. Their needless enterprise consisted of taking people to the wilderness and creating for them the sensation that they were lost there; they also took people shooting down rapids in frail rafts or canoes, creating for them the sensation that they would surely be bashed to death before they drowned.