Quotes About Wealth

It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

I began to appreciate what money can provide: a waterproof imperviousness to the demands of others.

What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

Ease, luxury, and plenty are not shameful, but they are not happiness.

Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.

A time came when all the riches in the State belonged to scarcely more than a hundred families, and of these many were unbelievably rich, though some had mortgaged their land and were deep in debt, and had nothing but the appearance of riches. The rest of the people worked for them, and were humbl and slavish through debt and anxiety and poverty, and there was no happiness.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

Din, fakirlerin zenginleri öldürmesine engel olur.

Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

The hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.

What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.