Quotes About Wealth

T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood.

Les gens riches à Paris demeurent ensemble, leurs quartiers, en bloc, forment une tranche de gâteau urbain dont la pointe vient toucher au Louvre, cependant que le rebord rebondi s'arrête aux arbres entre le Pont d'Auteuil et la Porte des Ternes. Voilà. C'est le bon morceau. Tout le reste n'est que peine et fumier.

Perdemos a maior parte de nossa juventude por conta das inabilidades. Saltava aos olhos que ela ia me abandonar, minha bem-amada, de vez e em breve. Eu ainda não havia aprendido que existem duas humanidades muito diferentes, a dos ricos e a dos pobres. Precisei, como tantos outros, de vinte anos e da guerra para aprender a me manter na minha categoria, para perguntar o preço das coisas e dos seres antes de tocá-los, e em especial antes de desejá-los.

On ne perd pas grand-chose quand brûle la maison du propriétaire. Il en viendra toujours un autre, si ce n'est pas toujours le même, Allemand ou Français, ou Anglais ou Chinois, pour présenter, n'est-ce pas, sa quittance à l'occasion... En marks ou francs ? Du moment qu'il faut payer...

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

The secrets of Newport, Clea thought. The way money and power could buy a way out of any trouble and into someone else's fortune. All that was really necessary was luck and a complete lack of conscience.

You can have everything in the world, and have nothing. Or you can have little and have it all.

E ela era mais rica naqueles sonhos do que na realidade, pois o que os olhos veem é passageiro, mas o que não veem é eterno.

Today, I counted the money I had earned all these years from my pen. It was quite a great deal of fortunes. Unfortunately, money does not buy happiness.

There was a solid air about him as he walked through the pandemonium of the plant in his conservative gray suits. The thin veins on his massive cheeks were like the engraving on gilt-edged securities.

Ugly city, except where the rich lived. Los Angeles was stark like that. Ugly where money wasn't, beautiful where it was. Well, not always. Along the beach even the rich lived in ugly buildings.

There were two faces pressed cheek to cheek and looking at the camera: an overly tanned older man, grimacing and shiny, and the trophy wife. They were holding up champagne flutes in hands loaded down with bling. #ilovemyshipwreckedparents. "Hashtag asskiss," said Rafe. "Parents? She's not even his mother!" said Sukey. "Unless she had him when she was three," said Jen. I quit the app.

He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

a barnacle on the yacht of prosperity

Money is not the secret to happiness

Or some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth. It is not power or money that such people love; it is humanity.

some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth.

You must have something in order to give it up.

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth