Quotes About Wealth

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends.Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

The equalization of fortunes may have some slight tendency to stifle animosity and to prevent dissension. But its effect is always inconsiderable, and often doubtful; since those who think themselves entitled to superiority will not patiently brook equality.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.

Wealth is clearly not the absolute good of which we are in search, for it is a utility, and only desirable as a means.

Money, or its equivalents, are essential in war as well as in peace.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchaseable by it.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Just 158 rich families contributed nearly half of the $176 million given to candidates in the first phase of the presidential election of 2016—$138 million to Republicans and $20 million to Democrats.

Oil's been pretty darned good to us," she said. "I don't want a smaller house. I don't want to drive a smaller car.

I think they overregulate the bottom because it's harder to regulate the top.

Indeed the best thing about happiness itself," Lewis writes, "is that it liberates you from thinking about happiness—as the greatest pleasure that money can give us is to make it unnecessary to think about money . .

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.

All rights, all power, all ability, are suddenly expressed in terms of money. In order to be understood, everything has to be reduced to this common denominator. From this point of view, the whole previous history of capitalism seems no more than a mere prelude.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million.