Quotes About Wealth

it is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing.

making a million dollars is a goal, but being a serial entrepreneur is a system.

Likewise, it is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing.

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Sonuçta dünyan?n bütün i?leri a?a??l?kt?r ; ba?kalar?n?n sözüyle, hiçbir tutkusu ya da bir gereksinimi olmaks?z?n, para, ?an ?eref ya da bilmem ne u?runa didinen biri her zaman bir budalad?r.

L'Eglise a un bon estomac, elle a dévoré des pays entiers sans jamais cependant avoir d'indigestion. L'Eglise seule, mes chères dames, peut digérer un bien mal acquis.

In Bibliotheken fühlt man sich wie in Gegenwart eines großen Kapitals, das geräuschlos unberechenbare Zinsen spendet.

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.

Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

Money is life. Not in the sense that without money you starve. Not in the sense that capital gives one class power over the entire lives of another class. But in the sense that money is the token of, and the key to, every human capacity. The power to spend money is the power to live.

It proposes to each of us that we transform ourselves, or our lives, by buying something more. This more, it proposes,will make us in some way richer - even though we will be poorer by having spent our money. Publicity persuades us of such a transformation by showing us people who have apparently been transformed and are, as a result, enviable. The state of being envied is what constitutes glamour. And publicity is the process of manufacturing glamour. (P. 125)

Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you have.

Just after the Second World War Picasso bought a house in the South of France and paid for it with one still-life. Picasso has now in fact transcended the need for money. Whatever he wishes to own, he can acquire by drawing it. The truth has become a little like the fable of Midas.

Decent fall the clothsover a high income.

if everything finally comes down to inward-looking self-interest, to getting more for oneself, to accumulating wealth or power, very little is left for other motivations that can be described as true, noble, good, and lovely.

The only way to save money is not to spend it.

Herbert Simon said it best: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.")

On average, individuals with high income are in a better mood than people with lower income, but the difference is about a third as large as most people expect.

Income is an important determinant of people's satisfaction with their lives, but it is far less important than most people think. If everyone had the same income, the differences among people in life satisfaction would be reduced by less than 5 percent.

I don't think money makes much difference, as long as you have enough.