Quotes About Wealth

Es ist mir egal, wie viel jemand auf der Bank hat - solange er kein Kind hat, besitzt er nichts von Wert.

Justice and fairness are like rain that falls more heavily on some people than others. People with umbrellas tend to stay dry. People on high ground avoid the flood. Rich people. Connected people.

Wealth lost, something lost; Honor lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost. German proverb

Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost.

A miserable Noyce told a friend, "For a few goddamned points on Wall Street, we have to ruin people's lives.

Letting rich countries buy their way out of meaningful changes in their own wasteful habits reinforces a bad attitude—that nature is a dumping ground for those who can afford it.

She only had a few coins to her name, but she had the Midas touch when it came to turning destitution into dreams.

Capitalism always draws from the cheap labor pool; the profit is greater when the expense is limited

Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold.

The pie is increasing in size, so everyone gets a bigger slice, but when the rich's already bigger slice increases in size, the relative amount of wealth accumulates more on the upper end, making the incomes of those in the middle and bottom feel smaller.

The Realistic Vision acknowledges that people vary widely both physically and intellectually—in large part because of natural inherited differences—and therefore will rise (or fall) to their natural levels. Therefore governmental redistribution programs are not only unfair to those from whom the wealth is confiscated and redistributed, but the allocation of the wealth to those who did not earn it cannot and will not work to equalize these natural inequalities.

If I make $100,000 a year and Elon Musk makes $100,000,000 a year and we both see a doubling of our incomes, while I should be thrilled at my newfound fortune of $200,000, if I compare it to Musk's massive $200,000,000, that comparative difference may feel worse, even though I'm better off and no one is worse off for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's fortune.

The almost universal desire of people to trade with one another, not for the selfless benefit of others or the society, but for the selfish benefit of one's own kin and kind; it is an unintended consequence that trade establishes trust between strangers and lowers between-group enmity, as well as produces greater wealth for both trading partners and groups.

that wonderful name Scrooge - a combination of screw and gouge... The idea of Scrooge as the ultimate miser, the ultimate loner, who had no feelings for the rest of humanity, except just for how much money he would make out of them...

some ways, this is the most difficult aspect of the role; it demands that Mariela portray a wealthy, professional, and mature woman, accustomed to control and decorous behavior, whose world has just been upended by her own child. One of Volpe's favorite things

How is it possible that we should need money to live on a planet that we were born on? Like many others before me I realised that we are born into pure slavery.

Keep down your losses—never let them get away from you. Let your profits take care of themselves.'"6

One of the biggest mistakes most investors make is believing they've always got to be doing something . . . the trick in investing is not to lose money . . . the losses will kill you. They ruin your compounding rate; and compounding is the magic of investing.

The aim is to make money, not to be right

What is this 'white trash'?" asked the model. "They're people just like me," said Trump, "only they're poor.

Theory 2: Trump was part of a less-than-blue-chip (much less) international business set, feeding off the rivers of dubious wealth that had been unleashed by all the efforts to move cash, much of it from Russia and China, out of political harm's way. Such money, or rumors of such money, became an explanation—still only a circumstantial one—in trying to assess all the Trump business dealings that largely remained hidden from view.

Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser—with

In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be—Bob and Rebekah Mercer were quite onto themselves.

Whatever you could say by the spring of 2018 about the Trump White House, Jared had, for the most part, successfully navigated it—the only person, other than his wife, to have done so. And in the back channels of a world that he was counting on to play an essential role in securing his wealth, he had had a singular impact.