Quotes About Wealth

You would be surprised. There are people whose sense of identity at the end of life doesn't go beyond: I own this house; earn so much; have four children; drive this car; have so much in the bank and so on. Maybe such identity is not enough for you.

My wealth of merit gathered in, With reverence but without conceptual target, When shall I reveal this truth of emptiness To those who go to ruin through belief in real existence?

People scorn the poor who have no wealth, They also criticize the rich who have it. What pleasure can derive from keeping company With people such as these, so difficult to please?

One cannot both feast and become rich.

Greed can destroy so much," Sir Montague nodded.

Love of money, he said, was the root of all evil. That was in the New Testament. In Saint Paul's letters to Timothy, if one wanted to be precise.

Making money is not all about working hard.If making making is all about working hard, my mother would have been a billionaire.

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn't working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn't working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn't working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn't working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich business men owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

My neighbors ask me what the u.s. is like, and they accuse me of lying when i tell them about the hunger and cold and people sleeping in the streets. They refuse to believe me. How can that be in such a rich country?

Fine print and white lawyers have a way of robbing Black people of what is theirs.

Friendship stays longer than money does.

Ali Baba destroyed a dream!!!

The whole city was richer because he was in it, and every street, and turn of a road held the possibility of his appearance.

Much later, reflecting on Iago's dictum, "Put money in thy purse" she noted rather wryly, "I live on the capital of my mind").

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice -- the foundation stones for a sound democracy.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

I said something about the way some of the longshoremen smelled. They smelled just godawful, especially when they'd just come back from their night shifts. Mama said: That's what money smells like, honey. You still wanna be rich?