Quotes About Wealth

The brilliant trees burned through the heavy mist and he climbed them to pluck leaves of gold, cramming fistfuls inside his sweater, imagining the wealth that would be his.

The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they're human beings.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things.

They lived in abysmal misery, yet they had no prospect of a better tomorrow. They existed under capitalism, yet there was no accumulation of capital.

Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided limitations.

But money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you're made of steel.

Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can't think of any Asian-American ones.

Money talks, bullshit walks Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Pecunia sermo, somnium ambulo.

One if by Land Cruiser. Two if by C-class Mercedes. The bougies are coming! The bougies are coming!

Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.

if Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.

If Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.

I have to admit, Doctor, I've never liked our fee-for-service system of medicine. The rich get the best care and the rest can't afford it or lose everything they have trying to pay for it.

Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, "High Income Improves Evaluation of Life but Not Emotional Well-Being," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Money does make you happy; it's the trying to make money that makes you sad. The trick is to get money in the course of other, meaningful, pursuits

There is no contradiction here. Money does make you happy; it's the trying to make money that makes you sad. The trick is to get money in the course of other, meaningful, pursuits—or, if you can manage it, to be born into wealth.)

Consider the effects of money. When it comes to experienced happiness, more money makes you happier. This makes sense. Money can buy you positive experiences and can make your life better in all sorts of ways. More to the point, being poor makes everything worse—as the authors put it, "Low income exacerbates the emotional pain associated with such misfortunes as divorce, ill health, and being alone.

It turns out that for experienced happiness, money matters only up to an annual income of about $75,000. (This study was done in 2010, so we might adjust that to $89,000 for inflation.) Apparently, the day-to-day experiences of a well-off person and a very rich person aren't that different,

This point is worth emphasizing, since there seems to be an urban legend that money, at least past a certain point, doesn't make much of a difference in the quality of your life or even makes you miserable. This just isn't so.

The rich-poor gap challenges our commitment to incarnational living. We will need to adapt simpler lifestyles before we go, to live with diminished material expectations in an effort to increase incarnational effectiveness. And the entire church, so accustomed to spending huge sums on their own comforts and conveniences, must be reawakened to increased generosity and sacrifice.32