Quotes About Wealth

The forces of the Power Cycles work over time to distributes the power and wealth among nations. Every nation and every political party must go through the cycles of expansion and contraction. This is true for all past, current and future powers. The only difference is that this power cycle got accelerated tremendously with the introduction of the Internet and global communications.

The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies all lost their leadership position to newer companies.

The poor work to make money for the rich, the middle class work to make money for themselves, the rich make money from other people's work.

There globalization of trade, knowledge, innovation, industrialization and entrepreneurial culture is increasing at a rapid rate and the net result is more distribution of wealth and power. A new world order is imminent. The countries that succeed will be those with better socioeconomic policies, more cash, natural resources and creativity. The US can embrace this change and compete or we can resist it and lose.

Your Attitude determines your Socioeconomic Altitude

the money that was scattered around me like an uninteresting garnish.

I'm aware that New York is a toilet bowl–but an expensive porcelain one.

Plus, constantly worrying about money is *boring*. Use your brain...to be creative.

And no sound from outside or anywhere. That must be the thing when you have money, I think. You never have to hear anything you don't want to, ever.

Mama had never said anything of her family having such wealth, not once, in all our years of suffering. But then again, neither had she told me she had a sister. I should not be surprised. She'd kept so many secrets. But this . . . Why had she said nothing of this?

How little they thought about anything but their own amusement. Their lives were so easy, so full of beauty and money. How much they could do with it, and how disappointing to find them so vacant.

The Sullivans are not well known for their generosity.

doesn't he come for us? Why does he want us to be poor?

Even at the tender age of twelve, when I knelt in front of the bishop for my confirmation, I had the sneaking suspicion that the Episcopal Church was just a politically correct social club for wealthy white people in designer clothes. p29

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!

Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!