Quotes About Wealth

If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity.

Do not store up for yourselves earthly possessions, which moths and rust can destroy, and robbers can steal. Rather, store up heavenly treasures which cannot be destroyed or stolen. For wherever your heart is, there is your treasure as well.

The desire for wealth can not bring happiness. Instead, anxiety results from the desire to keep it. Wealth creates dissatisfaction, and the loss of it is like death. Those who seek wealth only increase their desires.

The rich are so near the top that their reference group is likely to include people who are poorer that the are, while the poor are so near the bottom that their reference group is likely to include people who are richer than they are. That helps to explain why the rich are on average happier than the poor.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? ("Disappearing Act")

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Princes have far more toys than they need.

Anne Harrington de Santana, has discerned that nuclear weapons have acquired the status of fetish objects; like the coin of the realm in relation to commodities, our glittering warheads have become markers of national power: "Just as access to wealth in the form of money determines an individual's opportunities and place in a social hierarchy, access to power in the form of nuclear weapons determines a state's opportunities and place in the international order.

Silliman had struck oil—oil suitable for lighting.

It is strange that when people have so much, they are so anxious about not having enough—to do, to see, to own, to fix, to control, to change.

Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.

We even discovered that our fathers had the same favorite saying: "Money talks. It says goodbye.

The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.

Why does a rich country like ours blame people who have nothing for its problems?

I was raised to be a rich kid, only without the complication of money.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Thanks to our capacity to adapt to ever greater fame and fortune, yesterday's luxuries can soon become today's necessities and tomorrow's relics."6

Who knows when another accident, involving millions of men will happen, An accident that will be the dreadful day of our doom. Lodged in the heart of this moment, is the question of power which time will unfold. Your honor another civil war in these states is not impossible, and if the misunderstanding of what this boy's life means is an indication of how men of wealth and property are misreading the consciousness of the submerged millions today. One may truly come.

The most valued pleasure of the people I knew was a car, the most cherished experience a bottle of whisky, the most sought-after prize somebody else's wife.

All gotter be equal,' he pronounced fiercely, 'all gotter have lots of money. All 'uman beings. That's sense, isn't it? Is it sense or isn't it?

Remember, He is giving it to us to manage, not to have. We are His bondservants, and we therefore do not have anything of our own. It is all His, and we must not spend it on ourselves unless He gives us permission.

Oro en paz, fierro en guerra. "You know our jingle," Gonzales said. "Gold in peace. Iron in war.

That cigar-chomping hemorrhoidal bigot who sits astride the riding mower on the two and a quarter acres beside you, he is smart enough to spend his IRA on this stock, so why can't you? Do you want him to have something you do not?

Betsy: Do you have daddy issues, Warren? Warren: Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.