Quotes About Wealth

instead of investing a stream of savings, you have just inherited a lump sum of money at age 25 from Uncle Fred that is large enough to fund your retirement at age 65

The five major domestic asset classes you should use are: large market, small market, large value, small value, REITs.

the stereotypical wealthy, swaggering "ugly Roman" soon became an object of Greek hatred.

When, and only when, you've gotten rid of all your debt are you truly saving for retirement.

If you still crave financial thrills or feel compelled to have exciting investments to talk about with folk at parties, then designate a very small corner of your portfolio as mad money, to be deployed in 'exciting' investments. Just make sure to promise yourself that when it's gone, it's gone.

What investment banking is to the ambitious and acquisitive today, the pepper trade was to the Romans—the most direct route to great riches.

Albert Einstein has it that "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it.

At one time or another, most of us have seen a plot of capital wealth looking something like Figure 1-1, demonstrating that $1 invested in the U.S. stock market in 1790 would have grown to more than $23 million by the year 2000. Unfortunately

If you find yourself stimulated in any way by your portfolio performance, then you are probably doing something very wrong. A superior portfolio strategy should be intrinsically boring.

The easiest way to get rich is to spend as little as possible.

The Stoic philosopher and playwright Seneca is said to have owned five hundred tripod tables with ivory legs—no small irony, since he was a vocal critic of the empire's extravagances.

Only an income-producing possession, such as a stock, bond, or working piece of real estate is a true investment.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

How lonely life is when one prefers money to morals.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.

You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Norman. People who have things and people who want the things other people have.

To breathe, to eat, to sleep, and to do so fearlessly—how much more did anyone need to be happy? Wealth, Wendell had impressed on her, was not a value the Anishinaabe held. Sharing was the way of The People.

And I thought, as I had so many times before, that what's important to a human being, any human being, isn't the wealth that comes from money, but the richness that comes from community, a sense of connectedness to family and to friends and, as Rainy and Henry would probably have said, to the spirit of the Great Mystery that runs through all creation.

Believe me, Buck, if you have family, you can lose everything and still count yourself a rich man.

Successful long-term investors like Warren Buffett know that bear markets are buying opportunities.

The fabulous boom of the late 199os produced modest to no income gains for most Americans.