Quotes About Wealth

Me imagino que el pueblo estaba lleno de corazones podridos que codiciaban nuestras pilas de monedas de oro, pero eran cobardes y temían a los Blackwood.

Folks say he's up to his neck in debts. He doesn't even own the hair on his head.

Doctor, I wish you'd make in a month what I lose in a year. Then you'd say I was a friend of yours.

It looks like doctors prescribe what they themselves enjoy doing. I'm surprised they haven't told me to start swallowing rubles yet.

Just recently, she had an engagement party for her daughter. Great God! May you and I have a third of what that party cost her.

Our rich man hopped back and forth to the big city, seeing the money-grabbing, advice-giving lawyers. This one said this, that one said that, and the third one said neither this nor that, but, as you'd expect, something entirely different.

I just hate their guts. I can't stand those rich big-shots. Spiders and rich men! May God not punish me.

How does the saying go? "Earning less and sleeping well is earning best.

Money on paper is not even paper money," my mother says….

Money," says my mother, "can buy everything but a fever.

Not everyone would do for a husband what I've done. All that fancy living has gone to his lordship's head.

But a lot you care when all you can think of is your fine Yehupetz ladies. They should gash themselves on their diamonds and bleed to death!

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms—greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge—has marked the upward surge of mankind. (Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street.

Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing.

Old money's motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.

Beware of people who say they're too rich to have to work for money, Adam thought.

Two years later, when Lara sold out her real estate holdings, she had a certified cheque for three million dollars. She was twenty-one years old.

You asked me what I wanted to do with my money.' She looked him in the eye and said, 'I want to earn it.

Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing. - Jamie McGregor

I worked my butt off to get where I am. I love it. I love the money. I love the power. I'm a king, baby, and I love being king.

All rich Americans are crazy, especially their women.

Who lacks sex speaks about sex, hungry talks about food, a person who has no money - about money, and our oligarchs and bankers talk about morality

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. And yet, in making any general judgement of this sort, we are in danger of forgetting how variegated the human world and its mental life are.

Happiness is the belated fulfilment of a prehistoric wish. For this reason wealth brings so little happiness. Money was not a childhood wish.