Quotes About Wealth

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

As I took in the scene, I smiled softly. Family and friends—that's what mattered most. Money made a difference, yes, but it couldn't buy back a life.

You see, our hard-earned saving are always going to be taken away from us by someone - whether we have any or not.

They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

Nunca puedes perder algo que es realmente tuyo, ni ganar algo que no lo es. El dinero aparecerá. Y si no lo hace, es porque nunca fue mío desde el principio".

he became very rich and prosperous, and was henceforth known as My Lord Bag of Rice.

True poverty does not come from God.

We have no gold mines, we do not have oil or diamonds. Israel's poor in natural resources, but it has tremendous human potential.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

A nickle ain't worth a dime anymore!

Your wealth will increase, your values will increase, your projection will increase, if you simply love to live, just love yourself and live yourself.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for wealth, increases by acquisition, but as Bishop Lee has told us, "Knowledge without common sense is folly; without method it is waste; without kindness it is fanaticism; without religion it is death." But, Dean Farrar added: "With common sense, it is wisdom; with method it is power; with charity beneficence; with religion it is virtue, life, and peace.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

The worst fear that I have about this people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and his people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell. This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty and all manner of persecution, and be true. My greater fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth; and yet they have to be tried with riches, for they will become the richest people on this earth.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

A prince indebted is a fortune made.