Quotes About Wealth

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Money for the wise is a necessity of life, not a reason to live

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

"My face is my fortune, sir," she said.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

if the wealthiest fraction of a society feel that they can afford to insulate themselves from the common fate and buy their way out of the common institutions, that is also a form of social isolation.

what thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people call with equal justice a problem of riches.

Inequality of outcome among today's generation is the source of the unfair advantage received by the next generation. If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need to be concerned about inequality of outcome today.

less inequality is associated with greater macroeconomic stability and more sustainable growth.

it is wrong to see today's high inequality as the product of forces over which we have no control,

Plato, who expressed the view that no one should be more than four times richer than the poorest member of the society.

Could you give me the inner richness that makes it possible for you to so easily give away this thing that would have made you the richest man in the world?

Expand your property, increase your wealth, enlarge your walls. And when each new treasure you drag inside your walls doesn't relieve your pain? Go get some more.

Those who separate themselves from love, hardening their hearts as they grasp for power or wealth or fame, must separate themselves from the ground of their being. To fail to love is to destroy oneself.

Livy's worldview was moral and romantic, and most thinking people of his age shared it. In the preface to his magnum opus, he stated that writing history was a way of escaping the troubles of the modern world: "Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every kind of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective.

In his official memoir, he notes with satisfaction that he spent 600 million sesterces on land bought in Italy for his veterans

He went straight to Antony to ask for the money. He found him in his garden

even without access to Caesar's estate, Octavian had large sums of money at his disposal.

he may also have received, or seized, tax receipts from Asia on their way to the Roman treasury

even if Antony held back the moneys due. He also put up for sale all Caesar's properties and estates.

Capitalism has disappeared as an object of study, just when it has removed any alternative to itself.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

When you are rich, people treat you with respect.

very wise man once defined charity in the following way. He said it was poor people in rich countries giving money to rich people in poor countries