Quotes About Wealth

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

The covetous man is always poor.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

He who is contented is rich.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.