Quotes About Wealth

Wealth and dominion fade into the mass Of the great sea of human right and wrong, When once from our possession they must pass; But love, though misdirected, is among The things which are immortal, and surpass All that frail stuff which will be - or which was.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

They have possessions without power, wealth without true worship, and prosperity without God's presence!

Amid sparkling creativity, spectacular innovation and unprecedented wealth, growing up in the West means for many a sense of alienation and a craving for intimacy, authenticity and hope.

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

People think we make 3 million and 4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make 500,000.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

Being rich, really rich, meant you could go completely crazy, and the only result would be everyone getting so jealous they couldn't stand it.

Gold we've got, humping we want – debauch! debauch!

We are a community of possibilities, not a community of problems. • Community exists for the sake of belonging and takes its identity from the gifts, generosity, and accountability of its citizens. It is not defined by its fears, its isolation, or its penchant for retribution. • We currently have all the capacity, expertise, programs, leaders, regulations, and wealth required to end unnecessary suffering and create an alternative future.

the polite and polished superstructure of society must never be seen in relation to the substructure of money-grubbing and exploitation that allows it to exist.

Goriot was "a grease spot in his daughters' drawing rooms." Once they squeezed the money out of him he's discarded "like a lemon peel" in the gutter. The moral drawn by the Duchesse: "Society is a mudhole. Let's try to remain up on the heights.

The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.

The superficial and the slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Let's see how long the rich can eat their money for

We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money.

Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa's arena.

But all we have now is rule by rich people, the ones who keep ninety percent of the world in relative poverty so their unbalanced market can continue paying for a lifestyle of total excess.

Small wonder, then, that Tranquillity, with its liberal banking laws, low income tax, the availability of blackhawks to charter, and an impartial habitat-personality which policed the interior to ensure a crime-free environment (essential for the peace of mind of the millionaires and billionaires who resided within), had prospered, becoming one of the Confederation's premier independent trading and finance centres.

and you're not a raving hothead about it like all the other hate-the-rich dissenter rabble.