Quotes About Wealth

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

You're the one who doesn't understand, Lev said. In America, I have my own car. There's more food than you can eat, all the booze I want, all the cigarettes I can smoke. I have five suits! What's the point in having five suits? Grigori said in frustration. It's like having five beds. You can only use one at a time!

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery.

There's a saying: If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.

Le monde du pouvoir, des biens terrestres exigeait qu'un homme fût méfiant, exigeant et insistant

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad. Stalin lo sabe, y por eso no quiere que Alemania salga de la pobreza.

to him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game

If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.

Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It's no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor people who understand that love and friendship are more important than riches - Maisie Greenbourne

Never use your own money when you can spend someone else's.

Children who had inherited money, or a warehouse full of cloth or corn, were sometimes adopted by unscrupulous neighbors greedy to get their hands on the legacy. The prospect of something for nothing brought out the worst in people..

in the end there's no way to get rich crops out of poor earth.

Never use your own money when you can spend someone else's. - Lev Peshkov

Existe um ditado que diz: se você deve 100 dólares, está na palma da mão do banco; mas, se deve um milhão, é o banco que está na palma da sua mão.

Maud ficou radiante por ter ganhado um dólar, que valia cerca de um trilhão de marcos.

Nunca uses tu propio dinero si puedes gastar el de otros.

Earl Roland had prospered in the last ten years—under Queen Isabella and, later, her son Edward III—and he wanted the world to know it, as rich and powerful men generally did. In

Nosotros pertenecemos a la nobleza —dijo su padre—. No tenemos por qué atender a las necesidades de unos simples mercaderes.

B?rbatul nu avea nici trecut, nici educaÈ›ie, nici familie, dar era inteligent È™i avea bani, iar în vremuri grele, chestiile astea valorau mai mult decât o educaÈ›ie bun?.

in Winchester, and now she took out three pennies and showed them to the peasant. "Here," she said. "Take it or leave it." The sight of the silver helped the peasant make up his mind. "Done," he said, and took the money. Aliena smiled. It looked as if she might have found the answer. That night she used a bundled fleece for a pillow. The smell of sheep reminded her of Meg's house. When she woke up in the morning she discovered

con las manos metidas en los bolsillos; tenía un enorme reloj de oro cuya cadena asomaba por el ancho bolsillo de su chaleco.

She had always taught her sons that information could make a man's fortune—or save him from ruin.

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad.

He was the richest man in the world, yet he was always broke.