Quotes About Wealth

In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions." [ Why Societies Collapse , ABC Local, July 17, 2003]

Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each other—by providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Second, it gives people a motive, other than genetic self-interest, for sacrificing their lives on behalf of others.

Köyhä vihaa rikasta luonnostaan, sen on verissä. Tulee aina hetki jolloin lompakkokreivit pannaan lyhtytolppaan niin kuin sika teurauskoukkuun. Sitten sika syödään. Mutta kasvaa uusia, jotka lihovat kuin niitä ruokitaan. Kunnes kävelevät kahdella jalalla kuin sadussa.

I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?

With all the money my uncle embezzled over the years, it's no surprise he lives in a gated community. But what is amazing, however, is that he somehow managed to get his own cell.

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

Education, a force meant to erode class barriers, now fortifies them.

The tiny Emirates has more than eight million migrants—more than Canada, France, Australia, or Spain. A rags-to-riches story on a nation-state scale, it was a sleepy patch of desert until the 1960s, when it discovered it held 9 percent of the world's oil.

A course on philosophy introduced her to a new hero, the Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who "believed in one aristocracy—the aristocracy of intellect," she wrote in a paper. "He had one faith—faith in the power of thought, in the supremacy of ideas." Elizebeth, a smart person from a working-class family, found this concept liberating: the measure of a person was her ideas, not her wealth or her command of religious texts.

He paid the codebreakers and scientists tiny salaries but promised to take care of them in all other ways. Food, lodging, recreation: they would live like the "minor idle rich" as long as they stayed under his wing at Riverbank.

Make them see dollar signs where you see greater freedom, more

The lesson is clear: Having too much money or too many resources can actually get in the way of successful reinvention.

The Joneses, nine times out of ten, are financially stupid. That's why they have all that stuff, on borrowed money. Why try to copy them? Worse, why try to impress them?

Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and mortgages became derivative investments.

The folks contributing their automobiles and driving labor to Uber, or their property and hosting to Airbnb, make less than minimum-wage employees and don't own a piece of the company even though they constitute the infrastructure. Only money talks.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

Goldman sent off a letter to Evelyn: I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. Carrying his newspaper with your picture the laborer goes home to his wife, an exhausted workhorse with the veins standing out in her legs, and he dreams not of justice but of being rich.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. Carrying home his newspaper with your picture the laborer goes home to his wife, an exhausted workhorse with veins standing out in her legs, and he dreams not of justice but of being rich.

Jamie: The only kind of deal that I can make is with money, and we haven't got any of that. Mrs. Frankweiler: You are very poor indeed if that is the only kind of deal you can make

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.