Quotes About Wealth

Above all things, good policy is to be used, that the treasure and moneys, in a state, be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve.

Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor, and follow me: but, sell not all thou hast, except thou come and follow me; that is, except thou have a vocation, wherein thou mayest do as much good, with little means as with great; for otherwise, in feeding the streams, thou driest the fountain.

I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.

My goal is to be the most ignorant, richest rapper I could be.

Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

I never wanted to be a rapper. I want to be in the movies. I want to own buildings.

I didn't want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted more.

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.

You can't even tell, but a lot of the time your favourite rappers are wearing a bunch of fake jewellery.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Here's something we're rarely told growing up: our world rewards wealth, not hard work or talent.

Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

Capra's great passion was Dickens. As soon as he had some money, he bought some of the rarest and most extraordinary editions of Dickens's work, and he was very proud of his collection.

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.