Quotes About Wealth

Don Guillermo's house was no house, since he had not much money and was only a fascist to be a snob and to console himself that he must work for little

Oh, in Hong Kong the millionaires had scouts all through the country. All over China. It was just like the Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball team looking for ballplayers. As soon as a beautiful girl was located in any town or village their agents bought her and she was shipped in and trained and groomed and cared for.

He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones. You kept from thinking and it was all marvellous. You were equipped with good insides so that you did not go to pieces that way, the way most of them had, and you made an attitude that you cared nothing for the work you used to do, now that you could no longer do it.

Pobre todo el mundo —dijo Hadley—. Ricos los gatos que no tienen dinero.

The room was in that disorder produced only by those who have always had servants.

the clasp of the gold chain

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

He was in despair. What about? Nothing. How do you know it was nothing? He has plenty of money.

Religion is the opium of the poor. I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Chiar în vârtejul relelelor daÈ›i sufletelor voastre veselia cea de toate zilele, c?ci pentru morÈ›i belÈ™ugul aurului nu mai are preÈ›.

Looking at ourselves through the eyes of those living in places where human tragedy is still embedded in complex religious and cultural narratives, we get a glimpse of our modern selves as a deeply insecure and fearful people. We are investing our great wealth in researching and treating this disorder because we have rather suddenly lost other belief systems that once gave meaning and context to our suffering.

If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you -- less'n he wants to lose it!

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

No creáis nunca que los opulentos son dichosos hasta no llegar su última hora.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes.

Priests of religion. Large-scale building projects. Writing. Taxes. Soldiers. Kings. The ability to make war. All arrive in human history alongside one another, based on the first cities, which are really the first concentrations of stored wealth, themselves based on riverside farming cultures that needed to work together to tame nature.

The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

There is no sure thing when it comes to investing. Anyone that tells you that your investment is guaranteed to increase is lying through their teeth.

People like Diana show us all that it doesn't matter how much you have or what benefits you are born with, your world can still be restricted by unhappiness and ill health.

It was a childhood where she wanted for nothing materially but everything emotionally.