Quotes About Wealth

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you—either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.

Money is not the destination on your life's road trip; it's just the gas to help you enjoy the journey.

all apologies for getting most of your fortune buried under shit. I hope we can all still be friends.

I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.

Money makes a man mirthful.

If it's such a fine place, why did Basanti build his own?" "The Old Pearl is perfectly adequate," said Moncraine. "Basanti built to flatter his self-regard, not fatten his pocketbook." "Because businessmen like to spend lots of money to replace perfectly adequate structures they can use for nearly nothing, right?

Soon China would be the most powerful and wealthy country in the world and America would drown in the cesspool it had made of itself. 18.

Q: Why did the man put his money in the freezer? A: He wanted cold hard cash.

Q: Where do snowmen keep their money? A: In snow banks.

Sixty-two per cent of Australians believe they cannot afford to buy everything they really need. When we consider that Australia is one of the world's richest countries and that Australians today have incomes three times higher than in 1950, it is remarkable that so many people feel their incomes are inadequate.

The average wage in Australia is $78 832, according to the ABS. If you plug that into globalrichlist.com it shows that you're in the top 0.28 per cent of the richest people in the world by income. Yes, even on the average Aussie wage you're richer than 99.72 per cent of the global population.

Inflation is like a moving treadmill. Prices don't stand still — they keep increasing year on year (5.5 per cent per annum over the past 45 years in fact). If you stick your money under the bed, or in a transaction account earning 0.1 per cent interest per annum, then you're doing the equivalent of standing still on that moving treadmill. It's not safe. It's incredibly risky and it will have a devastating impact on your retirement.

obvious reason: giving people extra money to buy a home just filters through the market and makes them all more expensive. The real winners of the first home buyer policies are people who already own

The miserable misery of the miser

Charity is for the ruling class

Get what you can and keep what you have that's the way to get rich.

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. (Prov. 23:4–5)

finally the end arrives when the body he was lent collapses and falls prey to its death; ancestral possessions and the goods he hoarded are inherited by another who lets them go with a liberal hand.

Money has a long and sinister reach. It slips into the system, changes hands And starts to eat away at the foundations Of everything we stand for.

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

When society puts some small fraction of its wealth into asking and answering big questions, it reminds us all of the curiosity we have about our universe. And that leads to all sorts of good places.

Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.