Quotes About Wealth

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Ä°yilikte bir ÅŸey yok. Güzel ve zengin olunca elbette iyi olur insan. Mesele adil olmakta. Ama bu adaletsizlikte hizmetçi ol da iyi ol bakal?m!

La sociedad construida sobre el dinero destruye las cosechas, destruye a los animales, destruye a los hombres, destruye la alegría, destruye el mundo auténtico, destruye la paz, destruye las riquezas verdaderas

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

51st and 52nd Streets for $700,000 in 1879—the year

50th and 58th Streets came to be known as Vanderbilt

Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society benefit directly from individual virtue, and therefore have incentive to promote it? Did our concepts of goodness have their foundations in religious and spiritual practice? What about the notion that money was the root of all evil, and those monks and nuns who felt it necessary to deny themselves material wealth?

Inequality is expensive for two reasons, one connected with justice and one with efficiency.

Wealth acquired by creating value for society is not equivalent to wealth that comes from economic rents. For example, a very important factor in the increasing inequality of wealth in many countries has been the increase in real estate prices.48 But the owner of a building, unlike the inventor of a new treatment for cancer, does not create value for society.

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest. If our own life is luxurious and wasteful, we can't approach poor people. If we love people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

Julia and Sallie and I all had new dresses. Do you want to hear about them? Julia's was cream satin and gold embroidery and she wore purple orchids. It was a DREAM and came from Paris, and cost a million dollars. Sallie's

Thank the good Lord!" cried the mother, when she grasped the fact that the small piece of paper was one hundred dollars. "It wasn't the good Lord at all," said I, "it was Daddy-LongLegs." "But it was the good Lord who put it in his mind," said she. "Not at all! I put it in his mind myself," said I.

L'argent est du songe pur. Le contempler, c'est faire défiler devant soi l'interminable procession des choses de ce monde.

Nous sommes humains parce que nous avons accès à ce qui n'existe pas. Cette richesse n'est pas donnée à tous, mais ceux qui cheminent jusqu'à ce continent invisible en reviennent chargés de trésors qu'ils font partager à tous les autres.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: Guarda. Un giorno tutto questo sarà tuo. L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente: Guarda.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente:

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, in which whoever is the wealthiest has the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established.

Politics is just love, sex, food, clothes, money, and correct society in a different form.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.