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Quotes About Wealth

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a employee. Profits make you a fortune
~ John Roth
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.
~ John Ruskin
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
~ John Ruskin
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
~ John Ruskin
There is no wealth but life.
~ John Ruskin
He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.
~ John Selden
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.
~ John Steinbeck
Oh billions of dollars — is there no dispute you can't settle?
~ John Stewart
Unearned increment.
~ John Stuart Mill
When the "sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.
~ John Stuart Mill
Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.
~ John Stuart Mill
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
~ John Stuart Mill
Kids have too much money these days, if you ask me.
~ John Swartzwelder
John J. Raskob was the money man. Born in Lockport, New York, in 1879, when he was twenty-one he found himself working for Pierre S. du Pont as a bookkeeper. Raskob had a quick and agile mind, and soon became du Pont's secretary.
~ John Tauranac
John J. Raskob was likewise floundering. Although he had enough money to do nothing more than laze about in the Palm Beach sun, he was not happy unless his time was fully occupied.
~ John Tauranac
vücutlar sosyal s?n?f?n görünür simgeleridir.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The extreme wealth of American big business is the direct result of school having trained us in certain attitudes like a craving for novelty. That's what the bells are for. They don't ring so much as to say ,"Now for something different".
~ John Taylor Gatto
They are fools that fear to lose their wealth by giving, but fear not to lose themselves by keeping it.
~ JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699)
Class is material consumed.
~ John Trudell
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
~ John Waters
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
~ John Waters
W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It's the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.
~ John Waters
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
~ John Webster
What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?
~ John Webster