Quotes About Wealth

The Occupy Wall Street movement, in general, by putting this idea out there that the one percent is leeching off the 99 percent, is making a new discussion, making people figure out how to withhold their labor and come and put their issues on the table with the ruling class all over the country and all over the world.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Ultimately savings have to go somewhere and I think they will find their home in financial markets and within financial markets, a large part in equity.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

If we could support school curricula about social class, we might discuss the full complexity of 'wealth' within the parameters of our children's educational lives. Out of these lesson plans, we might talk more about what society values - and whether it rewards the right things.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

There is no law saying you have to die before your assets can be passed to loved ones. In fact, gifting earlier can be a lovely way to witness how your money helps your family thrive.