Quotes About Wealth

W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

The shabbier the snobbier.

poverty reconciled by the law of nature is great wealth.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.

In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed.

His wealth, his upbringing, his reputation, well known among the students, as a young militant on the left, his sociability, even his courage when he delivered carefully measured speeches against powerful people within and outside the university—all this had given him an aura that automatically extended to me, as his fiancée or girlfriend or companion, as if the pure and simple fact that he loved me were the public sanctioning of my talents.

En los países con cierto bienestar ha predominado una medianía que oculta los horrores del resto del mundo. Cuando de esos horrores se desprende una violencia que llega hasta el interior de nuestras ciudades y nuestras costumbres nos sobresaltamos, nos alarmamos.

The relationship between money and the possession of things had disappointed her.

Stefano seemed to seek in her the most palpable symbol of the future of wealth and power that he intended; and she seemed to use the seal that he was placing on her to make herself, her brother, her parents, her other relatives safe from all that she had confusedly confronted and challenges since she was a child.

In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we're startled, we're alarmed.

Others haven't had the same luck. In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we're startled, we're alarmed.

Deja que nos hagamos ricos sin complicarnos la vida, que ya de por sí es bastante complicada.

Hacia mucho que su líder Luis N. Morones se había quitado el overol para hacerse dueño de edificios, casas, terrenos, queridas...

Money never goes out of fashion.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth. There is no other source, except land, the raw material….Every bit of capital that exists was made by labor, just as everything that is consumed is.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

If you knew there was a beach where you could pick up gold nuggets like pebble stones, would you not go there? Go there.

A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect.

The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The respect now shown for wealth and money-making has been the most fundamental change in Britain over four decades.