Quotes About Wealth

Humanomics doesn't give up on science. On the contrary, it yields the best scientific explanation of how we got rich, 1800 to the present, and how the whole world soon will, and it gives us, too, a reason to be good.

the much-maligned "capitalism" has raised the real income per person of the poorest since 1800 not by 10 percent or 100 percent, but by over 3,000 percent.

The way to help the poor, in short, is to let the Great Enrichment proceed by commercially tested betterment, as it has widely since 1800 and especially in the past forty years.

But it didn't have the Great Enrichment because it didn't have the ideas flowing from a free people. Ideas, not savings, did it. Liberalism, not empire.

Generally, there is the fallacy that dividends are free money, by which I mean that many investors strictly buy dividend stocks to get the dividend income or bonus, says Dejan Ilijevski, investment advisor and president at Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana. Rather a dividend is simply a transfer of wealth from the company's books to the shareholder.

High fees only guarantee that more wealth will trickle up from your account to the pockets of your broker or advisor," says Ilijevski. "Fees and costs squander returns."

To build wealth, an investor should [forget] about the daily financial weather, like market news and headlines, and instead concentrate on growth of wealth over time,

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

What you spend, you save.

Business is other people's money.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

México. Riqueza descomunal y pobreza desgarradora.

The rich sought to conquer one another on battlefields of architectural grandeur. Society fought wars in ballrooms and twinkling parlors, wielding the most haute of designers and decor as their weapons of choice, Italian marble beneath their feet.

the rest of the clan, building a mansion at 1 West Fifty-Seventh Street that would become the largest private home in the history of Manhattan.

Chase National Bank in New York

Staten Island, where the Vanderbilt family—or van

They drive an Avis Grey Lady, a car that costs the same as a modest house.

Even rich people can only stand in one room at a time.

at rude variance with the poverty of its surroundings.

As the noted author and intellectual W .E. B. Du Bois says, we've given all of our economic power away. "When you owe another, your freedom is impaired," Du Bois counseled. "Your ability to decide your destiny is tainted by the amount you owe.