Quotes About Wealth

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.

There should he more than enough money and food here for you.

In America, money is God.

He says, You only came because I'm rich. I say that's how I desire him, with his money, that when I first saw him he was already in his car, in his money, so I can't say what I'd have done if he'd been different.

Si Ter a vécu il a dû être de ce côté de la société où l'argent est facile, où l'idée est courte, où le mystique du chef tient lieu d'idéologie et justifie le crime.

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell all thou hast and give it all to poor and then sue[8] me and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.

When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?

We are the richest nation on earth, yet our incarceration, drug addiction, and child poverty rates are among the highest in the industrialized world.

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.

Dear God, I surrender to you all my thoughts about money, I surrender to you my debts, I surrender to you my wealth. Open my mind to receive abundantly. Channel your abundance through me in a way that serves the world. Amen