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Quotes About Wealth

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
~ Diogenes Laertius
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
~ Don DeLillo
You know, when you sell real estate, that's not like going out and selling a stock. That takes a long time.
~ Donald Trump
Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.
~ Michael Ende
Hillary Clinton trashes the banks every time she opens her mouth, and yet she made $21 million in two years making speeches to those very banks that she trashes every day.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
~ Susan George
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.
~ Warren Buffett
Time is money, but also money is money.
~ William Gibson
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
~ M. Ward
By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
~ M.I.A.
People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
~ Maeve Binchy
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
~ Mark Twain
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
~ Matthew McConaughey
Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities.
~ Max Anders
If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would show up millions.
~ Melville Elijah Stone
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
~ Mark Twain
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
~ Mark Twain
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.
~ Mark Twain
During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business
~ Mark Twain