Quotes About Wealth

Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice.

I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

If I could take my entire savings in place of something, I'd chose time.

My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good.

Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.

The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

Rich with the spoils of time.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

I felt a thrill. Something more than wealth more even than love, was to be my portion. The living of a clean life in sight of God and man.

she had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.

You gotta love a country where there are rules for being poor, and rich people make them.

but she had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.

societies that eschew material possessions are happier overall.

I have heard the commandments read a great many times and I never noticed that any of them said, Thou shalt be rich

She had, or might have had, many suitors in her own rank of life, but scornfully repulsed or rejected them all; for none but a gentleman could please her refined taste, and none but a rich one could satisfy her soaring ambition.

By the late 1890s spending had become more than just a mark of status, a weapon for rising in society, a wish to be surrounded only by the best, a form of self-aggrandisement or even a way of giving pleasure to others, but simply an end in itself and even a validation of identity – I spend, therefore I am.

Between 1875 and 1905 over forty American girls married into the peerage, bringing with them the dollars that saved many a stately home from ruin. There were many attempts to calculate the total amount of American dollars spent in dowry payments; one estimate said that American brides had brought in $50 million to Britain, but the probability is that it was nearer a billion dollars – money that went straight into the pockets of the men they married.

One such family, the Stewarts, went as far as building a mansion opposite that of Mrs Astor so that she could not avoid seeing them. What perhaps they did not realise was that she so guarded the exclusiveness on which her myth was founded that she would not even go near her own windows lest the crowds that thronged Fifth Avenue hoping to catch a glimpse of the rich and famous should see her.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?