Quotes About Wealth

If you are to become an effective gift giver, you may have to change your attitude about money.

If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion—how can God's love be in that person? —1 John 3:17

Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. —Hebrews 13:5

Don't love money; love the people and the God you can give it to. — Joseph Compaine —

Believers who are poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them. —James 1:9

Yet the nearly metamorphic quality of his successes would fully exceed the dominion of money.

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

Whoever says youth is the best time in your life has cash in hand and can't remember being poor.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

But what will happen, and I got this from reliable sources, is that the International Monetary Fund will skedaddle from D.C., possibly to Singapore or Beijing, and then they're going to make an IMF recovery plan for America, divide the country into concessions, and hand them over to the sovereign wealth funds. Norway, China, Saudi Arabia, all that jazz.

Being a full prof at the University of Texas at El Paso meant living like a managing director at Barclays. Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. "You're negative arbing yourself," he used to say.

The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on top no matter what. Stuyvesant was hard but hopeful; Oberlin, on the other hand, reminds me yet again how the world works. I guess that's why they call it an education.

Because rich people were excused from the suffering of the world, they had to invent their own more elaborate and personalized forms of suffering and then to inflict baroque versions of that stunted inferiority onto others.

A man that rich couldn't be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?

All love is socioeconomic. It's the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

The next eleven floors held a single apartment per floor and belonged to the principals of hedge funds and private equity firms and one Argentine model and her soccer player boyfriend who spent no more than a week out of the year in New York.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. "You're negative arbing yourself," he used to say.

Jeff Park paused, as if to let that figure register, but Barry had heard it all before. Prices went up. Shareholders profited. What part of capitalism didn't Jeff Park understand?

Mrs. Hayes looked decades behind her God-given years, too. The whole family was investment-grade.

Shiva wouldn't have to accomplish as much as Arturo. He was a rich man's son. He could go to Skidmore or launch a clothing line made out of hemp, but his parents needed a sign that he knew he was a part of their tight, illustrious family.

It was clear to him, suddenly, that she was educated in an international school, and Luis probably went to a prep school in the States. Old money. Laughing at new money.

He was a rich man—richer, I think, than Mr. Macafee—and like most rich men he had nothing distinctive about him, the money having assumed for him the task of self-expression that, in poorer men, is assumed by the personality;

Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand.