Quotes About Wealth

you are rich in the things I do not need and poor in things I count important.

And loyalty is such a rare commodity when riches are involved.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Fertility was greatly prized in colonial America. Good male custodians were needed to husband the land's wealth. Widows were expected to quickly remarry so that their land did not go to waste.

It is important that we understand Bacon's Rebellion for what it revealed: the most promising land was never equally available to all.

We see how inherited wealth grants status without any guarantee of merit or talent.

suburbs were turned into class-conscious fortresses.

Like every educated Englishman, Benjamin Franklin was obsessed with idleness. In his Poor Richard's Almanack of 1741, he offered familiar advice that echoed the talk of Hakluyt, Winthrop, and Byrd: "Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough." There was utterly nothing new in his pitch for hard work as the way to wealth.1

democracy of manners," which was not the same as real democracy. He meant that voters accepted huge disparities in wealth but at the same time expected their elected leaders to "cultivate the appearance of being no different from the rest of us."68 The

Can a nation call itself free if it finds itself periodically on the verge of bankruptcy and starvation in the face of the fact that it possesses all the materials of the good life?

In 1949, an Australian observer described this phenomenon best. Americans had a taste for what he called a "democracy of manners," which was not the same as a real democracy. He meant that voters accepted huge disparities in wealth but at the same time expected their elected leaders to "cultivate the appearance of being no different from the rest of us.

Poor settlers coming from England, Scotland, and other parts of Europe were granted fifty acres of land, free of charge, plus a home and a garden. Distinct from its neighbors to the north, Georgia experimented with a social order that neither exploited the lower classes nor favored the rich.

By 1760, only 5 percent of white Georgians owned even a single slave, while a handful of families possessed them in the hundreds.

democracy of manners," which was not the same as real democracy. He meant that voters accepted huge disparities in wealth but at the same time expected their elected leaders to "cultivate the appearance of being no different from the rest of us.

the early generations of New Englanders did nothing to diminish, let alone condemn, the routine reliance on servants or slaves. Land was the principal source of wealth, and those without any had little chance to escape servitude. It was the stigma of landlessness that would leave its mark on white trash from this day forward.

Profit-seeking planters and industrious husbandmen, on the other hand, were needed to cultivate the ground for its riches, and in doing so impose a firm hand.7 This powerful conception of land use would play a key role in future categorizations of race and class on the experimental continent.

The land and the poor could be harvested together, to add to—rather than continue to subtract from—the nation's wealth.

We cling to the comfort of a middle class, forgetting that there can't be a middle class without a lower.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money. It's about having a lot of options." If you have a high net worth, you have an abundance of opportunities.

High" net worth is a feeling of wholeness. In other words, I don't just want you to have more money, I want you to be free to create the life that makes you happy—whatever that means to you.

Amitav Ghosh's multigenerational saga The Glass Palace, set in colonial Burma, India, and Malaya, tells the story of Rajkumar, once a poor Indian boy, who becomes a wealthy teak trader in Burma, and lovely Dolly, former child-maid to the queen and second princess of Burma.

The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.