Quotes About Wealth

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]

Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

The New Testament states that man cannot serve two masters. He must choose one -God, and not the other - money. For what man chooses will reveal his heart.

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

It's cool to have it when your money is working for you.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Money is a poor indicator of success.

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.

She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.