Quotes About Wealth

it was impossible to get into—unless you were extremely rich, famous, or high up on the criminal chain. Or, of course, a politician, which would make you all of the above.

The man with much finds it easier to forget his dependence than he who must ask with each succeeding day of need.

The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them.

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

The aristocracy and the ordinary people were like different species. A commoner might rarely be elevated to nobility by acquiring great wealth or political influence, but the easiest way into the aristocracy – then as now – was through marriage. Most aristocrats married other ones, but occasionally a commoner might get lucky, just as sometimes happens today. Many

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

when unemployment is high, inequality rises. And when unemployment is low, inequality tends to fall.

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

Christianity should be believed, Lewis routinely said, because it is true, not because it makes you happy, healthy, wealthy or popular. Speaking about his own conversion, he said: "I haven't always been a Christian. I didn't go into religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

You ain't never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there's money in that dick. Lots of money.

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

The path to wealth is the path of trusting Yahweh, not the path of greed.

La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad

And you, nobles, who are so much higher, all you have is dreams and clean fingernails and bitterness that the money you got of your fathers is never enough to cover the promises you got of your mothers.

Whoever is unable to show a correspondence between wealth and the risks undergone to acquire it, or the talents spent in its acquisition, will soon face a challenge over entitlement. The rich are regularly subject to theft, to taxation, to the expectation that their wealth be shared, as though what they have is not true compensation and therefore not completely theirs.

Property is an attempt to recover the past. It returns one to precompetitive status. One is compensated for the amount of time spent (and thus lost) in competition.

Propertied persons typically have large estates and freedom of movement through the society. At the same time, the property of the rich has the effect of crowding and confining the less propertied. The very poor are typically restricted to narrow geographical limits and are regarded as aliens outside them.

It is apparent to infinite players that wealth is not so much possessed as it is performed.

The more effective policy for a society is to find ways of persuading its thieves to abandon their role as competitors for property for the sake of becoming audience to the theater of wealth. It is for this reason that societies fall back on the skill of those poietai who can theatricalize the property relations, and indeed, all the inner structures of each society.

If wealth and might are to be performed, great wealth and great might must be performed brilliantly.