Quotes About Wealth

Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

The world would be a different place if instead of competing to have the highest per capita GNP, nations competed to have the highest per capita stocks of wealth with the lowest throughput, or the lowest infant mortality, or the greatest political freedom, or the cleanest environment, or the smallest gap between the rich and the poor.

The model is constructed in such a way that the global population will eventually level off and start declining, if industrial output per capita rises high enough. But we see little "real world" evidence that the richest people or nations ever lose interest in getting richer. Therefore, policies built into World3 represent the assumption that capital owners will continue to seek gains in their wealth indefinitely and that consumers will always want to increase their consumption.

The global distribution of wealth and opportunities is extremely skewed. The richest 20 percent of the world's population controls more than 80 percent of the world gross product and uses nearly 60 percent of world commercial energy. (Source: World Bank.)

The central question of economic development is how to keep the reinforcing loop of capital accumulation from growing more slowly than the reinforcing loop of population growth—so that people are getting richer instead of poorer.

The Abundance Book, by John Randolph Price; The Trick to Money Is Having Some, by Stuart Wilde; and The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity, by Catherine Ponder. These three books are excellent tools for developing a prosperity consciousness so that you can be free of money worries forever.

For sure we'll make a ton of money," Claire said. "Money? What's that?" Kaz asked. "You don't know what money is?" Claire gaped at him. "No." Claire laughed.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

knew she had a nest egg?

The American system for building wealth has always taken wealth away from black Americans and given it to white American - beginning when enslaved blacks were stripped of their humanity and counted as the property that became the white wealth that still benefits white Americans and corporations today.

A system designed to build white wealth will ultimately not work to build black wealth.

Dix lit a cigarette and also surveyed the room. Nice people, healthy and wealthy. Normal as you and me. Normal as Sylvia when she didn't have the megrims. But you didn't know what was beneath beach-tanned faces and simple expensive clothes. You didn't ever know about thoughts. They were easily hidden. You didn't have to give away what you were thinking.

Every one of us who was attracted to the poor had a sense of guilt, of responsibility, a feeling that in some way we were living on the labor of others. The fact that we were born in a certain environment, were enabled to go to school, were endowed with the ability to compete with others and hold our own, that we had few physical disabilities—all these things marked us as the privileged in a way.

Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.

Money is only congealed snow.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.