Quotes About Wealth

You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.' She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn. 'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

wherever people played polo and were rich together.

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made....

His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he'd left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away.

Daisy'nin verandas? y?ld?zlar?n maddi olanaklarda edinilmi? ???lt?s?yla parl?yordu.

one thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time

He's just a man names Gatsby.

No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it was what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and they'd be mean even if they were rich.

If good wishes had been ten-dollar bills, he would have left a rich man.

taste doesn't cost a dime, but if you don't have it, you can't buy it for a million dollars

For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of Saudis and Kuwaitis for things Western, from McDonald's hamburgers to Rolex watches to Cadillac limousines. but importing Western good is easy; importing the inner stuffing of modern society - a free market, political parties, accountability, the rule of law - is difficult and even dangerous for the ruling elites

Capital is a coward

Various studies estimate that somewhere between 70 million and 430 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty over the next few years. The most essential inequality—between the very richest and the poorest humans on the planet—is now growing again and at a rapid rate.

The top 10% of America owns almost 70% of the total wealth of the country—from houses and cars to stocks and bonds—while the bottom 50% own just 1.5%

If money can buy a better house or car or even a yacht, that's one thing. But if it can buy citizenship, special access to public spaces, preferential treatment at colleges, and favors from politicians, it becomes a corrupting and corroding force.

When markets shower you with cash, you consider it your just rewards, but when they withdraw their blessings, you holler that the game is rigged.

America was defined by "private opulence and public squalor.

The tragedy for the millions of new lower-caste voters is that their representatives, for whom they dutifully vote en masse, have looted the public coffers and become immensely rich and powerful while mouthing slogans about the oppression of their people.

Only 13% of people in households making over $100,000 were laid off or furloughed, compared with 39% in households making less than $40,000.

se podía incluir a Rothschild en la misma categoría de Richelieu y Robespierre como uno de los «tres terroríficos nombres que conjuran la gradual aniquilación de la vieja aristocracia». Richelieu había destruido su poder; Robespierre había decapitado sus restos decadentes, y ahora Rothschild proporcionaba a Europa una nueva élite social

Ricos y pobres, parece que los estadounidenses ven la bancarrota como un «derecho inalienable», casi en igualdad de condiciones con «la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad».

Fue la locura financiera, un ciclo autodestructivo de impagos y devaluaciones, la que hizo que Argentina pasara de ser el sexto país más rico del mundo en la década de 1880 a convertirse en un desastre inflacionista en la de 1980.