Quotes About Wealth

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?

She looked u at me through tear-stained cheeks and stammered, "My dad won't give me a Porsche when I come home if I don;t get all A's." I was a bit stunned. IT was my first encounter with real wealth. I remember looking at her and thinking, Holy shit. Being spoiled is worse abuse that being hit. At least I knew that being hit is wrong, But being spoiled ruins you.

With much wealth comes many worries

People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.

Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just wear you out, let me tell you.

Gold nugget jewelry is bad.

George Westinghouse, like Edison, thought money was important only as a form of "stored energy" to use as he wished in his work and expand his businesses. He was interested not in being rich, but in helping the world. He strove incessantly to deliver better, more reliable products.

Before 1492, Europe suffered from scarcity and famine. After 1492, the vast wealth carried to Europe from the Americas and extracted by the forced labor of Africans granted governments new powers that contributed to the rise of nation-states.

Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.19

In much of Africa, labor, not land, constituted the sole form of property recognized by law, a form of consolidating wealth and generating revenue, which meant that African states tended to be be small and that, while European wars were fought for land, African wars were fought for labor.

If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny.

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

The late Dominic Breckland, Viscount Stratfield, was returning to life in a sea of woman's underwear.

My point is, you can have everything and still not have enough.

Another problem with concentrating on money and power as a mission and purpose is that you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

History and experience should tell each and every one of us, time and time again, that having wealth and/or power as the aim in life will destroy any individual (and many other people, in some instances).

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Creo que todo el mundo debería hacerse rico y famoso y conseguir lo que siempre ha soñado para darse cuenta de que no es la solución

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.