Quotes About Wealth

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

Es fácil que la gente se comporte como amiga cuando uno es rico, pero muy pocos harán lo mismo cuando uno es pobre. Si la riqueza es un imán, la pobreza es una especie de repelente.

the wealthiest and most popular boy at the circumcision school.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

Dir-se-ia que a avidez súbita, a ideia fixa do dinheiro o transformava, inclusive fisicamente.

I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.

Whosoever hath, to him it shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that

I have a lavish, steady, dependable income, consistent with integrity and mutual benefit

El dinero siempre fluye libremente en mi vida y siempre seré bendecido por lo un excedente divino". Al

Spread your wealth within yourself by relaxing, and see everything else on the outside then transform.

Sympathy for living things—agreement with human limitations—is not in the consciousness of the king because he has learned to separate their false concepts from their true being. To him poverty is but the sleep of wealth. He does not see caterpillars, but painted butterflies to be; not winter, but summer sleeping; not man in want, but Jesus sleeping.

You're about to make a lot of money. But that is not true success. Success will be measured at the end of your career, not at the peak. When you're finished with baseball, if you love God, if you're still in love with your wife, if your children know who you are, and if your reputation is still intact, then you'll be successful.

Only the elites despise earning money.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

If they didn't have money, they could serve competently for forty years and never reach that rank.

United States, along with Canada and the United Kingdom, has become a "plutonomy" where "economic growth is powered by, and largely consumed by, the wealthy few." Economists

sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy.

In the wealthy countries of the West, discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss. In contrast, in much of the world discrimination is lethal.

What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

The public frets about cheating with food stamps (the fraud rate is about 1.5 percent) yet doesn't understand that zillionaires hide assets abroad and thereby deprive the Treasury of some $36 billion a year in taxes—enough to pay for high-quality pre-K and day care for all.

The gains in wealth and income have gone largely to a tiny share of the population, as is common knowledge by now. The people in the top 0.1 percent did fantastically well after 1980, those in the top 1 percent did very well, those below them in the top 10 percent enjoyed incomes growing at the same pace as the economy and those in the bottom 90 percent all lost ground—their incomes grew more slowly than the overall economy—during the last four decades.