Quotes About Wealth

Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.

for the rich pity only each other, no?

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

la tristeza alivia y es rica

Spero di non arrivare mai al punto di pensare che alcune migliaia di dollari, in fondo, non sono poi molti soldi.

For me, that's the definition of being rich: it doesn't cross your mind to mention it to your best friend. And money is such a given you don't care how you come by it.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain

If you're poor it will be almost impossible to get a higher education that will allow you to get out of the lowest category. If, on the other hand, you have a fortune it will be far easier to do trade or to start a company than it would if you have to depend on borrowed money. The more money you have the easier it is to make more.

You know, I ask myself what wealthy people do all day. What do you do when you aren't forced to work but still need the feeling that life must have some kind of meaning?

For the moment, Mr. Fontanelli, your trillion is nothing but a pile of money that's lying around uselessly. But if you use it to gain economic influence, you may be able to force the world to change!

Because he knew money was power. And because he, however he came upon the idea, knew that there would have to be someone to make a change in the distant future.

The commitment to the endless accumulation of capital wins out every time. After the past three decades, there can be no doubt that the ruling classes are constitutionally incapable of responding to the catastrophe in any other way than by expediting it; of their own accord, under their inner compulsion, they can do nothing but burn their way to the end.

People don't need yachts – they want yachts', in the words of a CEO of a top superyacht manufacturer.

Not only do the rich make our lives miserable, they are working to terminate the lives of multitudes.

Financial wealth without balance, family and love is just money.

The jigsaw puzzle of life is made easier through Financial Literacy.

Money undergoes a conversion when one has more of it than is strictly necessary. When there is enough of it to move beyond the strict survival mode, money goes in search of beauty. That is to say, in search of the abstract and the imaginary. Just like poetry, which is the distillation of an excess of language. Too much money and too many words tend toward the poetic.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.