Quotes About Wealth

this was a consequence of increasing prosperity, which, curiously enough, just seemed to bring out greed and selfishness.

these people had a house on a beach and sat on a marble terrace, which must have cost heaven knows what to import and they looked out at the sea. And there were no books in their house, not a single book. Not one..They had a daughter...who was as empty-headed as the parents and although they tried to do something about her education, nothing much got in. She had a baby, and the baby had nothing much in its head either.

You can only wear one pair of shoes at a time," she said. "Rich people are like the rest of us—two feet, ten toes. We are all the same that way.

And having a servant was not a sign of wealth or privilege—even a modest establishment would have a maid, as this was an important way of providing employment that would otherwise not exist.

they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe—you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.

a list of people who drive Mercedes-Benzes, and he checks to see if they have made up for it by being kind to people.

How sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this, and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all that money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass? None, in her view; none at all, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person

If you lived in a house your parents lived in, then you would not have had to buy it. But the house itself represented inherited wealth, and in some eyes, that was somehow tainted.

Penury was a matter of hard chairs and mean cushions; prosperity—old money—was a matter of feathers: an absurd reductionist view of it, but at times quite strikingly true.

Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.

There lies the cause of the rapid decline of our nobility: the grandfather was rich, the son is in need, the grandson goes begging.

Though a gamester at heart, he never touched a card, for he considered his position did not allow him—as he said— to risk the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous

We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

Those who are born in a gilt cradle and have never wanted for anything, do not know what happiness life contains, just as they do not appreciate to the full a clear sky who have never entrusted their lives to the mercy of four planks on a raging sea.

I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win. Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo

Very well, young man, very well, Treville went on, I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

Danglars was one of those calculating men who are born with a pen behind their ear and an inkwell instead of a heart.

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.

When someone places more value in saving money, than the value they place in saving Life, they have "misplaced" their values.

Chicago was "the only great city in the world to which all its citizens have come for the one common, avowed object of making money

This was also their wish. Their ideal was a situation in which Romania would export wheat, thus providing enough wealth for its upper class to live it up in Western style; the peasantry could be kept docile by being fed with m?m?lig?

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.