Quotes About Wealth

So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

Unless you have money today, you cannot live life according to your need.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state.

God is so cruel," she murmured reflectively, as though answering him. "Yes," he admitted, from the vantage point of going blind. "Though maybe people are kinder if He made them that way." "You've run with a different crowd. Rich people are nicer to rich people." "Sure. Yes. That's why I've washed up here. Rich people couldn't have been nicer to me.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise

Last year, it cost the British taxpayers $57.8 million to maintain its royal family," wrote Robert Keith Gray in Presidential Perks Gone Royal. "During that same year, it cost American taxpayers some $1.4 billion to house and serve the Obamas in the White House, along with their families, friends and visiting campaign contributors.

The average adult slave cost about 1,200 dollars in 1860, the equivalent to about 24,000 dollars today, so the 5,500 enslaved people of Augusta were worth over 6 million dollars to their owners, equal to 120 million dollars today.

Historically, most people were far too poor to let their tastes in entertainment guide where they chose to live, and cities were hardly pleasure zones. Yet as people have become richer, they have increasingly chosen cities based on lifestyle—and the consumer city was born.

The Owl and the Pussycat went to seaIn a beautiful pea-green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five-pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are."

Today, the US median income is still below where it was at the beginning of this century.

History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.