Quotes About Wealth

Fame, ain't it a bitch

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

There's enough of the social climber in most people so that they fall for this stuff and consider it a privilege to be admitted to a place that specializes in taking their money.

The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie's warning about wealth: 'There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

By 1927, only the richest 2 percent of Americans paid any federal tax at all.

Derringer, who invented the gun that killed Lincoln, made as much money in lawsuits as he did selling guns.

New York is like a divorcée looking for a richer second country.

There is only a sparse handful of exceedingly rich countries that could begin to afford to maintain the bulimically wasteful expense of an American democracy.

There is a duty to improve the lot of others. Charity isn't personal, it's public. It's owed not just to God and salvation but to the nation: the idea that America itself deserves its citizens' charity, not because it is poor but because it could always be richer.

Dane followed the man inside and noted the opulently decorated foyer. Somebody had lots of money with zero decorating skills.

It's not really necessary: a ten-year-old son in St. Mark's and a seven-year-old daughter in Lamplighter, three bedrooms and three baths at one end of Beverly Drive, her station wagon, his Toronado.

Increasing prosperity for the capitalists has everywhere brought with it increasing prosperity for the proletariat, instead of the increasing misery which Marx foretold. The most advanced capitalist countries are also those where the working class has the highest standard of life.

As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality. (A.W. Tozer)

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

When I walk into a house and see good paintings on the wall, I can smell money. But when I see tatty old carpets on the floor under them, I smell real money.

Well, you know what they say: Maybe money doesn't bring happiness, but it sure enough quiets the nerves.

Affluence is always relative, depending on where you are on the food chain.

All the children of the powerful were being groomed to be powerful

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Greed, crowned emperor, rules the earth with cold disdain for harmony's path.

life is full of fortunes . Keep cashing every penny out of it and you will be a billionaire

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.