Quotes About Wealth

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

If it were not for certain people's greed for wealth, the highways would be filled with cars powered by the sun, and no one would be starving. Such advances are technologically and physically possible, but apparently not emotionally possible.

Proud families spend fortunes on a one-day wedding ceremony for a marriage that may or may not last, while on the same day, in the same village, people are dying of starvation. A tourist makes a show of giving a ten-dollar tip to the doorman for pushing a revolving door, and the next minute he's bargaining for a five-dollar T-shirt from a vendor who is trying to support her baby and family.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Ben Franklin said: "Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy wealthy and wise" Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father: "Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.

I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.

Not one of these symbols of prosperity and taste has any use at all.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

Antiques and Oriental rugs tell people that my mother may be a dog breeder who dropped out of Bryn Mawr, but she's got power—because she's got money.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know. I used to be a person who liked pretty things. Like Mummy does, like all the Sinclairs do. But that's not me anymore.

People with money love Gershwin.

The jolt of a new purchase makes Mummy feel powerful, if only for a moment.

but she's got power—because she's got money.

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

PENNY, CARRIE, AND Bess are the daughters of Tipper and Harris Sinclair. Harris came into his money at twenty-one after Harvard

I am the eldest Sinclair grandchild. Heiress to the island, the fortune, and the expectations. Well, probably.

and rich, those girls were like princesses in a fairy tale. They were known throughout Boston, Harvard Yard, and Martha's Vineyard for their cashmere cardigans and grand parties.