Quotes About Wealth

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

A small profit it better than a big loss

I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another, drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still must it be said, that the judgments of the Lord are righteous altogether.

Russiaphobia; what is that?" "Wearing one's rubies and emeralds at the same time," Mrs. Shamefoot said in a hushed voice.

The richest 1 percent of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 80 percent.177

Trump, through his actions over many decades, has made it clear he can never have enough money, power, or sex.

There are many examples of how Trump doesn't truly care for the hurting and oppressed, only for the wealthy and the white.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, "Christian" minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

When the individuals and classes that have gained wealth, honours and power through revolution emerge as champions of ordered government, they do not surrender anything.

Es genügt ja nicht, Macht und Reichtum zu erlangen; die Menschen wollen tugendhaft erscheinen und sich tugendhaft fühlen.

Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

If I was as rich as a Rockerfeller I'd be Richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

Greed knows no shame

Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually … once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

Woe to the land where naked greed holds sway.

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility? —SØREN KIERKEGAARD, Either/Or

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

He was rich, that she knew. The rich aren't difficult to find, she thought, they live in big wika-iganan.

There won't be any love to spare in this world as long as there's five francs.