Quotes About Wealth

According to Seneca, Apicius committed suicide because, having spent one tenth of a considerable fortune on his kitchen, he realized that he could not long continue in the style he had chosen.

The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.

The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power. Julius

the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.

Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others. —ANDREW CARNEGIE

At the root of desperate poverty, human trafficking, political violence and global inequity is a sense of scarcity and competition fueled by greed—the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods or objects of abstract value far beyond the dictates of basic survival or comfort.

That's the most basic truth the young could impose on the old--the immorality of spending now and charging it to Junior. Next time Obama tells Joe the Plumber he wants to spread the wealth around, it should be pointed out that you can't spend it until you've earned it. Redistribution from the future to the present is a crock, and if you happen to have been assigned to the future half of that equation, you should be merciless in your contempt for the present-tensers who've done that to you.

The easiest way to a "lifestyle" is a government job. The following year, another survey (from Newsweek) found that seven of the ten wealthiest counties in the United States were in the Washington commuter belt.9 What matters in the America of the twenty-first century is proximity not to industry or to wealth creation but to government.

But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple.

The new trash who'd suddenly come into money and liked to rub your nose into it? They didn't care. They didn't notice. Until one of their own goes ill. Then it's a sodding emergency. Some privileged prat starts feeling poorly and then it's call out the Marines, start looking for someone to blame

How did the age-old equation that poor equals thin and rich equals fat change so that now our working poor are huge and slow-moving and only the wealthy can afford the personal trainers, liposuction, and extended spa treatments required, it seems, to be thin?

Apparently, only Communists get to make money in Cambodia.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Treasure a handful of dirt from your home,      But love not ten thousand taels of foreign gold.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.

Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.

You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have. —JIM MOTT

You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have.

Money can't change who we are. All it does is magnify our true natures. If you're mean and selfish, you have more to be mean and selfish with. If you're grateful and loving, you have more to appreciate and give.

I can't afford to waste my time making money. —JEAN LOUIS AGASSIZ

Sir John Templeton said, "If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

Life is always happening for you, not to you. Appreciate that gift, and you are wealthy, now and forever.