Quotes About Wealth

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

Becoming a millionaire is not the end goal; your growth and development en-route is what matters.

If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

Perhaps my most important goal is to create a million millionaires.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age. [About Bill Gates]

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.