Quotes About Wealth

king of a large and fruitful territory there feeds, lodges, and is clad worse than a day-labourer in England.

that every man should have as much as he could make use of, would hold still in the world, without straitening any body;

had not the invention of money, and the tacit agreement of men to put a value on it, introduced (by consent) larger possessions, and a right to them; which, how it has done, I shall by and by show more at large.

It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money.

I tipped young Hylas with a sesterce and turned away discreetly while he disposed of it somewhere about his person. Slaves, especially small ones, must resort to certain subterfuges in order to prevent larger slaves from acquiring their wealth, and it is often inadvisable to wonder too much about where our money has been.

Lowest of all were bankers and auctioneers, who made money without actually producing anything—activities that, to right-thinking people, had the aspect of a species of magic.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.

Godliness with contentment is great gain

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit.

If enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates, whatever may be happening to thrift; and if enterprise is asleep, wealth decays, whatever thrift may be doing.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.