Quotes About Wealth

Bir yemeÄŸe ne kadar çok para verirseniz o kadar çok ter ve tükürük yemek zorunda kal?rs?n?z.

There are two kinds of avaricious person—the bold, grasping type who will ruin you if he can, but who never looks twice at twopence, and the petty miser who has not the enterprise actually to MAKE money, but who will always, as the saying goes, take a farthing from a dunghill with his teeth.

It's queer, the power of these rich men.

You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

You do not escape from money merely by being moneyless

the oligarchs have to make use of the masses without significantly raising the general standard of living

England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus

But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer. From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

For money buys all virtues. Money suffereth long and is kid, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own

It would be an exaggeration to say that throughout history there has been no progress of a material kind. Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer. From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

Poverty is poverty, whether the tool you work with is a pick-axe or fountain pen.

If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable.

algún modo parecía como si la granja se hubiera enriquecido sin enriquecer a los animales mismos; exceptuando, naturalmente, los cerdos y los perros. Tal vez eso se debiera en parte al hecho de haber tantos cerdos

One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability. But why, demanded the King, should not all the people learn how to accumulate gold and therefore become themselves rich and prosperous?

You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first.

Gold is reserved for those who know its laws and abide by them.

Thou speakest with true inspiration, Bansir. Thou bringeth to my mind a new understanding. Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.

Babylon became the wealthiest city of the ancient world because its citizens were the richest people of their time. They appreciated the value of money. They practiced sound financial principles in acquiring money, keeping money and making their money earn more money. They provided for themselves what we all desire . . . incomes for the future.

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad

a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you.

had declared himself an egg merchant. If thou select one of thy baskets and put into it each morning ten eggs and take out from it each evening nine eggs, what will eventually happen?     It will become in time overflowing.     Why?     Because each day I put in one more egg than I take out.     Arkad turned to the class with a smile. Does any man here have a lean purse?     First they looked amused. Then they laughed.