Quotes About Wealth

Rockefeller was convinced that he had a God-given talent for making money, was obligated to develop it, and was liberally rewarded by God—all compatible with Baptist doctrine.

ad John D. Rockefeller died in 1902, at the outset of the Tarbell series, he would be known today almost exclusively as a narrow man of swashbuckling brilliance in business

Sometimes Rockefeller gave Gates glimpses into his inner sadness.

John D. retained his mystic faith that God had given him money for mankind's benefit.

while he was always surrounded by people, Rockefeller had few, if any, real friends and was isolated by his wealth.

There was now a self-perpetuating quality to his wealth.

As he watched people scheme and grovel for Rockefeller's fortune, it was hard to preserve his faith in human nature.

About his nose, Pierpont could be more sensitive than he was about his trusts.

He was receiving about $3 million yearly in Standard Oil dividends (more than $50 million in 1996 dollars) and redirecting that into a vast portfolio of outside investments that made him a one-man holding company.

Rockefeller embarked on a buying binge such as the industry had never seen.

With $24 million now invested outside the oil and gas business, he held sizable stakes in 16 railroad companies, 9 real-estate firms, 6 steel companies, 6 steamship companies, 9 banks and financial houses, and even 2 orange groves.

Of the 35,000 Standard shares, Rockefeller held nearly 9,000, or three times the amount of Flagler, Harkness, Pratt, or Payne.)

Money can't buy no blessins.

Those complicated curls of hers remind me of the codicils to my poor dear Leslie's will.

He asks wether Christians eat gold. Ari, nispa. Qoritam mikhunku. Yes, they are saying. They do eat gold.

Being financially secure is truly a life-enhancer; it sweetly oils the wheels of life. But remember: to talk of money, the excess of it or the lack of it, is vulgar to the extreme. One either boasts or whines, and neither makes for good conversation.

Money is only as good as the people who possess it. It can be squandered and wasted, or it can be used prudently, to enrich and enhance.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

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The money you give away while you're alive is worth twice what you leave when you die.

Since Government's planned economy has always kept people poor, the almost static living conditions through all Old World history seem to verify the pagan belief in a static universe. All Old World thinking about economics assumes that wealth cannot be increased, but must be divided.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Those who, even today, claim that "states' rights" caused Southern secession and the Civil War use these statistics to argue that slavery was not the cause of the Civil War, but that is false. Every settler in the Southern states aspired to own land and slaves or to own more land and more slaves, as both social status and wealth depended on the extent of property owned.

European institutions and the worldview of conquest and colonialism had formed several centuries before that. From the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, Europeans conducted the Crusades to conquer North Africa and the Middle East, leading to unprecedented wealth in the hands of a few.