Quotes About Wealth

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

Abundance is a state of mind, more than a reflection of wealth.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.