Quotes About Wealth

No la envidio a pesar de su dinero porque, despues de todo, los ricos tienen tantas penas como los pobres

Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence.

In all, 113 tribal nations suffered the disaster of termination; 1.4 million acres of tribal land was lost. Wealth flowed to private corporations, while many people in terminated tribes died early, in poverty. Not one tribe profited. By the end, 78 tribal nations, including the Menominee, led by Ada Deer, regained federal recognition; 10 gained state but not federal recognition; 31 tribes are landless; 24 are considered extinct.

For you, not vaccinating me was a class thing. Upper-class delusionals can afford to indulge their paranoias only because the masses bear the so-called dangers of vaccinations.

Cartoonists stereotyped Rockefeller as a churchgoing hypocrite.

The Morgans were never litigious.

Pierpont "will probably not think of asking us.

Harper had fundamentally miscalculated in approaching Rockefeller for money.

In December 1896, a humbled Carnegie at last consented to a sweeping deal.

With one check, Rockefeller might have relieved their anxiety forever, but he wanted to avert excessive dependence and keep alive a creative ambiguity about his intentions.

He craved a privacy impossible for the world's most famous banker.

when prohibited from talking about money directly to Rockefeller, Harper circumvented the ban by praying aloud for money in his presence.

Rockefeller was now self-supporting and entirely free of his father

Rockefeller was fantastically charitable from boyhood.

I do think we are and shall be great consumers.

By 1859, when he was twenty, his charitable giving surpassed the 10 percent mark.

the leading men would receive no salary but would profit solely from the appreciation of their shares and rising dividends—which Rockefeller thought a more potent stimulus to work.

Rockefeller and Gates allowed beneficiaries to announce the receipt of gifts.

I never met a man who had such a love of money.

He held $32.3 million in Morgan capital, which was the bank's major cushion.

Faced with his son's dizzying wealth, he must have sometimes pondered whether to throw off his disguise and resume his Rockefeller identity.

Like Rockefeller, he advocated self-discipline and deferred gratification.

Through such trusts, he would convert financiers from servants to masters of their clients.

He saw that money could bring majesty in the moral as well as secular sphere, which excited him more than fancy estates or clothes.