Quotes About Wealth

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Wealth wants to be able to do whatever the fuck it wants to... And it's winning the war.

Serce jest wi?cej warte, ni?li ca?e z?oto ?wiata.

lot of money over

Why are you all wasting human labour and the world's wealth in building machinery to commit mass murder – creatures that for half a million years and more have been endowed with reason – conscious beings who discovered a better way long centuries ago?

What a rich phrase. You could live a life on the income it yielded.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Some people really think that great wealth makes crime respectable, and if it is pointed out to a wealthy but dishonest man, that he is merely a common thief, and if in addition, the fact is proved to everybody's satisfaction, his anger is noticeable.

It is important to this people to grapple with the problems connected with the amassing of enormous fortunes, and the use of those fortunes, both corporate and individual, in business.… No amount of charity in spending such fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore: For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store; And other, that hath litle, askes no more, But in that litle is both rich and wise. For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize, Sith each vnto himselfe his life may fortunize.

The railroad they built yonder wasn't even a decent road, but they'd been granted all that land by a rotten Congress that they'd bought up—land on both sides of the tracks for miles and miles, east and west. That's what they were after, you see. They got all that land along the right of way—hundreds of thousands of acres—and it never cost them a cent of their own money.

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

The very poor are materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

When life is cheap death is rich.

If I were a millionaire--well, a multimillionaire--I'd buy me an old ferryboat like the Eureka, make a floating home of it. What a grand ballroom, what a place for parties. And when I tired of the social hubbub, I'd weigh anchor and steam away to some romantic hideaway like Richmond, Oakland, or South San Francisco. East San Mateo too might be worth investigating.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

These various interests are well organized, command more wealth than most modern nations, and are represented in Congress with a strength far greater than is justified in any constitutional or democratic sense. (Modern politics is expensive—power follows money.)