Quotes About Wealth

It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

People like a look into the lifestyle of someone who has a lot of freedom.

I didn't just freestyle it. At the end, it's about bread.

I lost many friendships because of my wealth. When my friends met me, they had an agenda in mind. Just because I had money, they expected one thing or the other from me, which they didn't before.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

More than films, endorsements and dance shows and attending functions or appearing in any shows brings more money.

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

We can't just live as rentiers off the oil fund.

The index fund always gives you the market return.

Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

We shouldn't be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.

Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They

It was astonishing that Mark, who was a millionaire at least, and probably a good deal more, should live in such a dingy apartment – it had for its chief decoration the hoofs of several deceased race-winners, mounted as inkstands, as pen-racks, as paper-weights – and afford himself only such a lugubrious breakfast of fat slabs of ham over which bled pallid eggs.…

He knew that it is as difficult for a rich man to go to heaven as it is for a camel to go through the gate in Jerusalem called the Needle's.

Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.

I don't know what it is to be hungry

My mamma has a diamond ring which cost forty pounds," she said. "And it is not a big one, either. If there were mines full of diamonds, people would be so rich it would be ridiculous." "Perhaps Sara will be so rich that she will be ridiculous," giggled Jessie. "She's ridiculous without being rich," Lavinia sniffed.