Quotes About Wealth

like sales margins or profits. In the short-term, stock prices

Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called trade. Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called finance.

In the casino, the house always wins. In horse racing, the track always wins. In the Powerball lottery, the state always wins. Investing is no different. In the game of investing, the financial croupiers always win, and investors as a group lose. After the deduction of the costs of investing, beating the stock market is a loser's game.

My recommendations for investors in the accumulation phase of their lives, working to build their wealth, focused on a stock/bond mix of 80/20 for younger investors and 70/30 for older investors. For investors starting the post-retirement distribution phase, 60/40 for younger investors, 50/50 for older investors.

for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside.

Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling.

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.

Our lust is furious and our greed limitless in pursuing wealth and honors, chasing after power, heaping up riches, and gathering all those vain things which seem to give us grandeur and glory. On the other hand, we greatly fear and hate poverty, obscurity, and humility, and so we avoid these realities in every way. Thus, we see that those who order their lives according to their own counsel have a restless disposition. We

That's why they pay me the big bucks.' 'What do you mean?' 'I don't know,' Dickson said, 'I heard it on TV.

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

This morning I had not so much as carfare. Now I am here, on velvet. You are itching to learn of this haven; you would like to organize trips here, spoil it, send your relations-in-law, perhaps even come yourself. After all, this journal will hardly fall into your hands till I am dead. I'll tell you. I am at Bracey's Giant Emporium, as happy as a mouse in the middle of an immense cheese, and the world shall know me no more.

Came from nothing- less than nothing, because the poor always enter this life with their account in deficit, and generally leave it in much the same condition...

you had to be reasonably wealthy and privileged to choose not to own stuff. He

Virgil was not a man to take time to look at the stars, not when he might miss a nickel on the ground in the process.

were indeed the case that behind every great fortune lay a great crime—and this was as true of the New World as of the Old, if

He put his hand on the book. To those who have, more will be given, he said. From those who have not will be taken even the little that they have

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.