Quotes About Wealth

Greed and peace preclude each other.

secure money.

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

the rapid increase of wealth permitted the wives of prosperous men to withdraw from productive activity.

Interestingly, single women were prominent amongst rentiers, investors and money lenders, suggesting that wealthier women had long found trade an unappetizing option. 11

After all, in their fears about the vicious consequences of wealth, writers fell back upon stereotypical images of devouring, unreasonable womanhood, images that were as old as Eve herself–something which suggests we might better view such accusations as testimony to the persistence of male anxieties, rather than a simple guide to female behaviour. 13

In 1790s ladies' debating societies were still deliberating 'In the Marriage State, which constitutes the greater Evil, Love without Money, or Money without Love?' 12

What is needed is not a rejection of the positive role of the market mechanism in generating income and wealth, but the important recognition that the market mechanism has to work in a world of many institutions. We need the power and protection of these institutions, provided by democratic practice, civil and human rights, a free and open media, facilities for basic education and health care, economic safety nets, and of course, provisions for women's freedom and rights

Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

Property, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Do not set your heart on wealth…Do not strain to seek increase,What you have, let it suffice you.If riches come to you by theft,They will not stay the night with you….They made themselves wings like geese,And flew away to the sky.

Better is poverty in the hand of the god,Than wealth in the storehouse;Better is bread with a happy heartThan wealth with vexation.

Poverty is not a respecter of man.

When a man is rich, whether in gold or in knowledge, he must treat the poverty of others with consideration.

La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.

J'ai toujours eu de l'aversion à la fois pour les riches et pour les pauvres. Ma patrie sociale, c'est l'entre-deux. Ni les possédants, ni les revendicateurs. J'appartiens à cette frange médiane qui, n'ayant ni la myopie des nantis ni l'aveuglement des affamés, peut se permettre de poser sur le monde un regard lucide.

Ce qui a eu pour effet d'accentuer fortement les inégalités sociales, au point de créer une petite caste d'hypermilliardaires, chacun d'eux plus riche que des nations entières.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.