Quotes About Wealth

Gold is the spiritual basis of existing society.

Well, gold contains all things in embryo; gold realizes all things for us.

È meglio godere della ricchezza dei sentimenti che del lusso dei vestiti. Non temo io, no davvero, il disprezzo di nessuno.

Money is a sign of poverty.

You never risked everything; you risked as little as possible. You sold the idea of risking everything to the sort of idiot who thought that was how you got rich, but you kept your own risks to an absolute minimum. That way if you did make a mistake--and everybody made mistakes, or they weren't really trying--it didn't finish you. Let others ruin themselves--there were always rich pickings in the wreckage--but don't ever risk too much yourself.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Because some people dressed more expensively and lived in a higher stratum of society, it did not make them less human. They were born and they died. They sought for happiness in the same way as the humblest scullery-maid or the lowest paid stable-boy wanted to be happy in their lives.

Money closes more than mouths, it closes minds.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

matter that the robe was pure silk and had cost a fortune, their daughter wouldn't be caught dead in anything

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

I have so much, and yet I'm still not happy.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig.

CRANBERRY JELLY IN A CAN 2. EXPLODING BISCUITS 3. NIPSY DOODLES 4. RAINBOW SPRINKLES 5. TOILET PAPER 6. MONEY

How can the people in power not understand that a sick schizophrenic doesn't have the tools to cope with such a confusing world? How can we be so rich and so idiotically poor all at once?" "I know," Eldora says again.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

You can earn a living doing anything. (Whether or not you want to is another matter.) But it's not time to think about money yet. Finding what you love – by listening for those Happiness Levels inside you – needs all your attention. For now, pretend you're rich and don't need to earn any money at all. When your dream starts to show itself, you'll see just how many ways there are to do it, both for money and for love.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.