Quotes About Wealth

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies.

A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought / may be worth a million dollars.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

A man with friends is the wealthiest man in the world.

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning.

The more urbanized, the more educated, and even the more enlightened the world becomes, counterintuitively, the more politically unstable it becomes, too.*42 This is what techno-optimists and those who inhabit the world of fancy corporate gatherings are prone to miss: They wrongly equate wealth creation—and unevenly distributed wealth creation at that—with political order and stability.

But in spite of its bent toward self-interest, even with its excesses and inequalities, capitalism has a historic opportunity to create shared wealth that can benefit every person on the globe. I am convinced that our best hope for moving the poverty needle toward financial wellness once and for all lies with the best practices of the free market.

Parental wealth is especially important for social mobility, because it can provide informal insurance that allows kids to take more risks in search of more reward.

Liberation technology creates wealth, and open-source technology creates wealth. In both instances the 'center of gravity' for dramatic change toward resilience and sustainability is the human brain mass of five billion poor--the one billion rich have failed to 'scale.' The human brain is the one unlimited resource we have on Earth.

John F. Kennedy that would begin to define him as a person and shape his future career choice. "To whom much is given, much is expected.

The rich get richer and the poor go to prison.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat, The people scattered gold-dust before my horse's feet; But now I am a great king, the people hound my track With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back. – The Road of Kings.

He was a swine whose only god was gold.

The belief that affluence can insulate is illusory.

In America we have Rockefellers for breakfast.

The poor man may envy the rich their houses, their lands, and their cars; but given a good wife, he rarely envies them their table.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

Fue una misión triste y deprimente porque cuanto más aprendía menos remedio parecía tener la tragedia de Oriente Próximo. Que los venales países occidentales traficaran con sus letales productos en el mundo musulmán e Israel era una cosa; otra muy diferente era contemplar esos mismos países de Oriente Próximo suplicando, gimiendo y despilfarrando su riqueza para comprar esas mismas armas.