Quotes About Wealth

Economics versus beauty, a story older than Sheba.

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.

Cómo es posible que un planeta pueda convertirse en un Edén sin dinero? —¿De qué os sirve el dinero si no os procura los servicios que necesitáis? —preguntó a su vez Kynes.

Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?

People always expect the worst of the rich and powerful, Sire. It is said one can always tell an aristocrat: he reveals only those of his vices which will make him popular.

And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed. But this made the empty place within him no easier to bear.

Control the coinage and the courts – let the rabble have the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advised you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

Duke: How is a planet to become an Eden without money? Kynes: What is money if it won't buy the services you need?

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings. It's

Halleck murmured: "'For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.

How careless his people had grown, Paul thought. They were millionaires of water—forgetful of the days when a man on Arrakis could have been killed for just an eighth share of the water in his body.

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization—agriculture.

Business makes progress! Fortune passes everywhere!

More than one government has fallen because people discovered the real extent of official wealth.

A volte coloro che erano supremamente ricchi diventavano depravati. Ciò derivava dalla loro convinzione che il denaro (il potere) potesse comperare tutto e tutti. E perché non avrebbero dovuto crederlo? Lo vedevano accadere tutti i giorni. Era facile credere negli assoluti.

Power attracts the corruptible.

One of the faceless gods produced a thundering whisper in Dasein's skull: "This is my commandment given unto you: A poor man cannot afford principles and a rich man doesn't need them.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it... you might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Too bad I can't afford to patent it. I can make a fortune. But again,I have a fortune. -Batman, Year One comic.

It soon became apparent that Trina would be an extraordinarily good housekeeper. Economy was her strong point. A good deal of peasant blood still ran undiluted in her veins, and she had all the instinct of a hardy and penurious mountain race—the instinct which saves without any thought, without idea of consequence—saving for the sake of saving, hoarding without knowing why. Even McTeague did not know how closely Trina held to her new-found wealth.