Quotes About Wealth

Roepke was no apologist for an abstraction called "capitalism"—a Marxist term, incidentally, foolishly pinned to themselves by numerous vainglorious champions of economic competition. He knew that the worship of Mammon is damnable.

Those were his exact words, "an insatiable lust for power and money".

Giving, not trading or selling, is the basis of success. The most rewarding thing you can do is just to give the world something good. And ultimately you will be paid so much more for that gift than it you had tried to trade it for something else.

Expensive medicines are always good: if not for the patient, at least for the druggist

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

rasialisme telah mengaburkan kesamaan itu dan menumpulkan contohnya, sehingga bukan hanya mengalihkan perhatian dari struktur dasar ekonomi Afrika Selatan, melainkan juga menyembunyikan intensitas eksploitasi dan laju akumulasi kekayaan secara berlebihan yang memedulikan kesejahteraan manusia

Don't economize, earn more money.

when I think of all our gifts, all our riches - the sky the sea, the sea, the mountains and the sun - everything is there for us to seize and enjoy, and still people sit in their little corners and moan about how they are poor... as for me, wherever I shall be and whatever I shall do, I shall always be a rich man.

The more stars in your itinerary, the less likely you are to find the real life of another country. I'd forgotten how money becomes a barrier insulating you from ordinary life.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Gold! I knew it! Just think of it, Queen. Six bags of gold!" trilled the King. "What will you do with them, King dear?" asked the Queen. "I won't do anything with them. I'll just have them and be rich.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

Those who have too much, too often respect nothing.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Oil kindles extraordinary emotions and hopes, since oil is above all a great temptation. It is the temptation of ease, wealth, strength, fortune, power. It is a filthy, foul-smelling liquid that squirts obligingly up into the air and falls back to earth as a rustling shower of money.

As Karim Lala often said,'learn to clench the world in your fist. open your palm only when you have to receive money

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

He more than once asked a prospective client, 'Do you realise that the only thing you can spend a hundred thousand dollars on without incurring an obligation to spend a great deal more for its upkeep is a picture? Once you've bought it, it costs you only a few hundred dollars every fifteen years for cleaning.' It was a revolutionary sales argument, and one admirably adapted to American royalty.

Duveen was not selling merely low upkeep, social distinction, and watermarks; he was selling immortality.

You can get all the pictures you want at fifty thousand dollars apiece – that's easy. But to get pictures at a quarter of a million apiece – that wants doing!