Quotes About Wealth

his association with the Rockefellers had inflated his already healthy sense of self to a point of bloated grandiosity, and

whose four-story limestone mansion at 12 West 49th was sufficient for himself and his wife, while the neighboring houses at numbers 10 and 14 provided him with protection against development from the east and, to his west, a place to store his books and paintings.

Money can't buy spirituality-and money can't make it go away. Cultivating

Job said, "I came into this world with nothing. I'll leave with nothing, too. The Lord gave me everything; he can take it away. The Lord's name is blessed.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

The French like anyone with money and power. - Mikhail Abramov

Behind every fortune lies a great crime," said Ramirez. "Honoré de Balzac

Grotesque displays of wealth are now the de rigueur. - Sarah Bancroft

Remember, darling, one normally doesn't part with the Rembrandt because one is tired of looking at it. One parts with because one needs money. And the last thing a rich person wants is to tell the world that he's not rich anymore. - Julian Isherwood

My business is hurting, too. Everyone on the street is in trouble. I never thought I would say this, but the world was a much better place when the Americans were still rich.

A nuclear bomb can only be dropped once. But money can be wielded every day with no fallout and no threat of mutually assured destruction.

five-hundred-gram gold ingots.

The money, as promised, was in the trunk of the general's official

Nearly one hundred thousand luxury British properties were held by secret owners

who famously dismissed the clientele of the Hôtel Grand Courchevel as "the elderly and their parents.

lo que importa no es quien dispara, sino quien paga la bala.

four million Danish kroner

In Russia you cannot succeed or become wealthy unless someone in a position of power or influence places his hand on your shoulder. - Oksana Akimova

They arrived in Copenhagen aboard private jets and roared through its quaint streets in armored limousines powered by internal combustion engines. Perhaps one day the oil would run out and the planet would grow too hot to sustain human life. But for now at least, the extractors of fossil fuels still reigned supreme.

con quanta grazia Zurigo nasconde le sue ricchezze" pensò. Una gran parte dell'oro e dell'argentodi tutto il mondo era conservata nei caveau delle banche sotto i suoi piedi, ma non c'era nessuna odiosa torre di uffici a segnalare i confini del quartiere finanziario, ne altri monumenti dell'altre di accumulare denaro. solo discrezione e riservatezza. una donna denigrata che distoglie lo sguardo per nascondere la propria vergogna. la Svizzera

If a man receives thirteen coins, he will hanker after sixteen, and possessing them he considers life unbearable unless he now earns forty. Nature, it might be observed, imposes strict boundaries on a person's height and age span, so that in even the most extreme instances no one can rise or fall too far or too short from the rest, whereas no such boundary inhibits money.