Quotes About Wealth

It's the freaking American way--you start out in a dangerous craphole and work hard so you can someday move up to a somewhat less dangerous craphole. And finally maybe you get a mansion.

Then I imagined a whole world of people toiling in the shadow of approaching ruin, exhausting their strength and grace, while above them a whole other world of people puttered around, enjoying the good things of life, staying at the Burj just because they could. And I left my ATM woes out of it and just wrote: Paucity = Rage.

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money. But I hate to think what would have happened if I hadn't made money: My ideas would not have gotten much play.

Fortuna se ha convertido en «fortuna», en el sentido del contador y del banquero.

En efecto, los multimillonarios se vuelven cada vez más comunes entre los jefes del hampa de la Rusia poscomunista, los magnates del petróleo de Oriente Medio, los malabaristas de los fondos de inversión y los banqueros planetarios.

If there is in deconstruction any hint towards valuation, towards the choice of one text for commentary rather than another, it lies merely in the wealth, gamesomeness and ingenuity of the misreadings or emancipations which it occasions.

His father had always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back. In the words of the Bible, "To whom much is given, much is required.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.

The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life; the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g., an organism); if the system can no longer grow, or if the excess cannot be completely absorbed in it's growth, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically.

What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them; they loved wealth before they loved life.

Sucumbían perante os signos da riqueza: amaban a riqueza en vez de ama-la vida.

Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias.

I see now that there is a great deal in what Aunt Almeria says. She considers that there are terrible pitfalls in Society. Sir Richard shook his head sadly. Alas, too true! And vice, said Pen awfully. Profligacy, and extravagance, you know. I know. She picked up her knife and fork again. It must be very exciting, she said enviously.

I'll see the color of your money, my lord. My lord folded the paper. He was still smiling. It would disappoint you, my friend. It is just the same colour as everyone else's.

Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.' Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.

Yes, and that puts me in mind of another thing I have to say to you! Why the devil don't you take better care of Nell? Did you get her out of a silly scrape? No, you didn't! I did! All you did was put it into her head you thought she had only married you for your fortune, when anyone but a gudgeon must have known she's too big a pea-goose to have enough sense to do anything of the kind!

He was clearly a person of affluence, if not of taste.

Dear Papa, it seemed, had not left his family in affluent circumstances; but he had certainly endowed them with good looks, a commodity in which they had been bred from earliest youth to trade to the best advantage.

One is for ever hearing of persons who have lost their fortunes at gaming, but one never hears of anyone who has won a fortune. It seems very odd to me. Where do all the lost fortunes go to?

Sir Nugent] wore so many rings on his fingers, and so many fobs and seals dangling at his waist, that he might have been taken for a jeweller advertising his wares.

means that Charis won't be a penniless bride.' 'Ah!

They say -- everyone says I'm beautiful !' He managed to preserve his countenance, but his lips twitched slightly. 'Yes, of course,' he replied. 'It's well known that all heiresses are beautiful !

as the religious conflicts that animated the seventeenth century began to recede—Christian vs. Muslim; Catholic vs. Protestant—as the filthy wealth generated by slavery and dispossession accelerated, capitalism and profit became the new god, with its curia in the basilicas of Wall Street. This new religion had its own doctrine and theologies, with the logic of the market and its "efficient market theory" supplanting papal infallibility as the new North Star.