Quotes About Wealth

We're in the money,We're in the money,We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!

To paraphrase an old Afrikaans idiom; it is necessary to eat a bag of salt with these people to realise the extent of their misery and suffering within touching distance of one of the wealthiest little communities to be found on any continent. For those who wish to follow in my footsteps, it's all there for the taking but it requires moments of considerable insight, humility and understanding of the frailties of human nature. Some would call it compassion.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I had always wondered why people wanted to be rich and famous. If you could be rich and anonymous, that would be fun. To be famous and not rich, the way we were, was the least fun. It takes time and effort to be famous, and if they offer you fame without the money, don't take it. It's a scam.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I think everything depends on money.

And so I have grown up wanting to feel secure when it comes to money, but doing so by treating it as something to be enjoyed, shared, and not given power.

John Jacob Astor succeeded in amassing America's biggest fortune by trading in the furs of beavers, otters, muskrats, and bears (though he wisely used some of the money he made from hunting in America's great wilderness to buy real estate in Manhattan).

The James Hills and J.P. Morgans are an affront to a society dedicated to the worship of mediocrity.

Who is rich?" asks Ben Zoma,17 and he answers, "One who is content with his lot.

THE MORE POSSESSIONS, the more worries" (Pirkei Avot 2:7). Do not think that your wealth and property will allow you to live happily and well. On the contrary—you will be caught up in taking care of them all year round. Any intelligent person can tell you that this is so, and any wealthy person can confirm it. —RABBEINU YONAH OF GERONDI (D. 1263)

Who is rich?" and then answers, "He who rejoices in his own lot.

WHEN SOMEONE SEES his neighbor acquiring some worldly property, whether some kind of food or clothing, or a house, or accumulating money, he works hard to get the same, because he thinks, "If my friend has this, I should also have it!" —ORCHOT TZADDIKIM (1540)

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Real wealth is discretionary time. Money is simply fuel for your life. You can always make another dollar, but you can't make another minute. Don't let the pursuit of money erode your wealth.

While generosity is about more than just money, bear in mind that the idea of it is really based not so much on what you give but rather what you have left after you give.

The structure of politics followed naturally from the structure of the economy.

make a good showing among all the monied bigwigs in the Mazarile chamber of commerce, he'd brought both of us along for the evening. We were meant to be on our best behaviour. Prim and proper educated young ladies.