Quotes About Wealth

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

We must recognize that we do not have a two-party system in this country; we have one party, the big government party. There is a republican version that assaults our civil liberties and loves deficits and war, and a democratic version that assaults our commercial liberty and loves wealth transfers and taxes.

The most lavish book owned by the noble classes was also one of the most ubiquitous: the Book of Hours,

Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away Ã¢â'¬â€œ you may put money in the pocket of one set of Englishmen, but it will be money taken from the pockets of another set of Englishmen, and the greater part will be spilled on the way.

What is money made for except to spend?

I realized there was no freedom without funds.

To think you can make a man richer by putting on a tax is like a man thinking that he can stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle.'71

Fortune is a liberal mistress; I have often said so, and now begin to experience

You may, by the arbitrary and sterile act of Government,' he said, 'for, remember, Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away Ã¢â'¬â€œ you may put money in the pocket of one set of Englishmen, but it will be money taken from the pockets of another set of Englishmen, and the greater part will be spilled on the way.'67 He

It felt something like a legendary dragon's hoard, only the dragon was either very misguided or extremely eccentric.

I couldn't afford luxuries like embarrassment

Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more Successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing

The super-rich have so much that there is no way they can spend all of it on things they can use, so they recycle the rest into further rounds of speculation, buying up property, companies and financial assets that generate little or no productive investment, and merely siphon off more wealth that others have produced.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. (Warren Buffett, estimated 'worth' $44 billion, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, quoted in the New York Times, 26 November 2006)1

If you think you'll find intellectual stimulation, you're thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I've never been more bored by casual chat.

What color is your Bugatti?

What color is ur Bugatti

Stealing to eat ain't criminal—stealing to be rich is.

That's Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

Concepts of mercy and tolerance were rich people's luxuries, playthings for idle minds.

Do I want his dirty money, sir?" "No such thing, my boy! The man who earns it may be disgusting; the way he does it may be corrupt; but the gold shines clean and pure!

religion is for the poor, not the rich and powerful.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.