Quotes About Wealth

Le cose più preziose della vita non sono quelle che si comprano con il danaro

The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. - Albert Einstein (Something just for me to keep in mind)

A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. If it makes war, it is to subserve its commercial interests. The citizens copy after the State, and regard wealth, pomp, and luxury as the great goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, and distributes it badly.

The more stitches, the less riches.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Money brings no satisfaction if one has to work for it; for if one works for it one has no time to spend it.

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.

Success and cynicism are not only achieved; they are also inherited.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

Todos tendemos a exagerar el valor de lo que por casualidad nos pertenece.

in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning. Meaning

The Times reports I've made £4.5 million in the last year (from my Star Wars income). Where do they get such nonsense?

The Times reports I've made £4.5 million in the past year (from my Star Wars income). Where do they get such nonsense?

The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.

Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise: But late to watch and early to pray Brings him across The Abyss, they say.

He took an unassuming pleasure in his possessions, and the likely prospect of becoming truly wealthy left him completely indifferent. He was, besides, one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate. It should be noted that these men observe their fate the way most men are accustomed to observe a rainy day.

Markets concern property, and so it's essential in markets that somebody or something be able to own something.

When talking about speculations, a man dreams, and money decides.

The public wants gurus, and new gurus will come. As an intelligent trader, you must realize that in the long run, no guru is going to make you rich. You have to work on that yourself.

She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted for infinitely more than a vigorously healthy balance sheet. In fact, she thought, annual accounts should include an item specifically headed Happiness, alongside expenses and receipts and the like.