Quotes About Wealth

David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski found Jimmy Carter to be their ideal candidate. They helped him win the nomination and the presidency. To accomplish this purpose, they mobilized the money power of the Wall Street bankers, the intellectual influence of the academic community – which is subservient to the wealth of the great tax-free foundations – and the media controllers represented in the membership of the CFR and the Trilateral.

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

I looked like a million bucks. An unarmed million bucks, which isn't necessarily the best combination.

Money could never have originated as paper.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

No doubt Confucius, as a person and as represented in the written tradition, is suffering an eclipse in Communist China because he is associated with those classes whose wealth is being proscribed as sops to bait the allegiance of the masses to the new political group. As students of history know, new political groups everywhere and throughout history have always proceeded thus.

The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out.

There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

He was a man whom prosperity harmed.

Man is to technology what the bee is to the flower. It's man's intervention that allows technology to expand and evolve itself and in return, technology offers man convenience, wealth and the lessening burden of physical labor via its automated systems.

For you, perhaps. Tell me, how many more of those pretty baubles have you purloined since then?

They served the rich, and tried to think that they were rich.

On one occasion a demonstrator confronted him with a sign, LBJ, PULL OUT LIKE YOUR FATHER SHOULD HAVE DONE. He complained bitterly to Joseph Califano, a trusted aide, that the "thickness of daddy's wallet" offered protection to the privileged and to the hypocritical young men who were pontificating in order to save their skins.94

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

Early to rise and early to bed Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

Well, I've already got ten thousand set aside. That's a good start. If you think about it when we get home, give me your Social and next time I drop by the bank, I'll open an account in your name, okay?

As we walked outside together, into the Christmas crowds, I felt unsteady and sorrowful; and the ribbon-wrapped buildings, the glitter of windows only deepened the oppressive sadness: dark winter skies, gray canyon of jewels and furs and all the power and melancholy of wealth

he had an indefinable look of privilege gone wrong

Son of a Clemson football star turned banker.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty," Henry Demarest Lloyd

If the problems created by the industrial age were left unattended, Roosevelt cautioned, America would eventually be "sundered by those dreadful lines of division" that set "the haves" and the "have-nots" against one another.