Quotes About Wealth

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

Where the riches are engrossed by a few, these must contribute very largely to the supplying of the public necessities.

Vous prêtez de l'argent aux deux antagonistes afin de financer la guerre, et vous leur prêtez encore plus pour la reconstruction de leurs pays dévastés. Ils deviennent endettésface à vous (contrôle) et vous augmentez votre richesse (pouvoir).

We have reached the point where multi-millions of people are taking to the streets around the world to protest at their economic plight as the gap between rich and poor becomes a chasm as (calculated) chaos in the financial system has been used as the (calculated) excuse for the biggest transfer of wealth from the many to the few, from poor to rich, from masses to elite, in known human history.

In the decade I had been away something in the fabric of the country had dissolved. America wasn't one country anymore—it was two, or a dozen, or a thousand. The extremes of wealth and color and caste felt more like Cairo or Johannesburg than any American city I remembered.

Time magazine found in a 2000 survey that 19 percent of Americans thought they were in the top 1 percent of wage-earners, and another 20 percent expected to be in the future. "So right away you have 39 percent of Americans who thought that when Mr. Gore savaged a plan that favored the top i percent, he was taking a direct shot at them," wrote David Brooks, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard.3

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50 000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

more money doesn't mean more better. It just means more.

Money is a mechanism for control.

Then, as they will, the riches overtook knowledge, and the people lost the ways to keep their wealth flowing.

Money talks, bullshit walks. First and foremost the magazine had to pay its way.

If you can afford a strong defence you can get away with whatever you want these days.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer.

Prioleau was soon afterward accepted into the free mulatto and black slave-holding elite of the city. In the U.S. census of 1840, he was reported as the owner in Charleston of seven slaves, including a married couple, Alfred and Lavinia Sanders, and their two-year-old son. In 1849, Prioleau, apparently needing money, sold the Sanderses' son to another master for $235.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.