Quotes About Wealth

In fact, on Duveen's last visit to H. E.'s California mansion, San Marino, just before H. E. died, the host didn't have enough cash on hand to pay for the freight-car load of merchandise in the guest's caravan. Duveen accepted instead some Los Angeles real estate, a commodity of which H. E. was then the largest owner.

Since Duveen was able to assemble a large part of the Mellon Collection – and a large part of so many others besides – in one lifetime, it can be argued that he was the greatest collector in history.

Early in life, Duveen – who became Lord Duveen of Millbank before he died in 1939, at the age of sixty-nine – noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty.

Once we've got you properly done up," her aunt said, "and he hears of your newfound wealth, he's sure to look your way again." "I don't want him looking my way again. He was a pompous twit back then, and he's a pompous twit now." "Respectable, God-fearing men sometimes are, dear.

Affluence has not brought misery. The money did not stay in your pocket; it got into your head. Only then misery came to you. Having lots of money in your pocket is good. But if it enters your head, it becomes misery, because that is not its place.

What you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you. Who

Yama and niyama are simple guidelines, the dos and don'ts on the spiritual path, such as nonviolence; commitment to truth; not stealing; not hoarding wealth; purity; cleanliness; practice; and so on. They create the right atmosphere for one's spiritual evolution.

The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the I.R.S. all combined can't turn up a thing I got, beyond a car to drive and a seven-room house to live in.

Value of a corporation should be distributed not only to its leadership but also to the communities in which it operates and to the world

Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot. —The Talmud Most

La pobreza no curte el alma ni la favorece. La esclaviza.

He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble or shameful—and hence neither good nor bad.

I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.

But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful—and hence neither good nor bad.

La muerte y la vida, la buena fama y la mala, el sufrimiento y el placer, la riqueza y la pobreza, todas esas cosas ocurren indistintamente a los hombres tanto a los buenos como a los malos porque no son ni hermosas ni vergonzosas. No son ni buenas ni malas[192]

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

In the United States, the central values of our culture are the "three A's": attractiveness, achievement, and affluence. For

So the issue is not character flaws among the elites. The issue, rather, is a system in which some people sleep on beds made of ivory while others end up being sold for the price of a pair of sandals.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!