Quotes About Wealth

God bless the aristocracy. May they never learn to do their own plumbing.

Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen gray eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

said no more but, calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty £1,000 notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility which it entailed

Populus me sibilat at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. (The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.)

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

Hay más en un cerebro que en su bolsillo»

A woman living in a grand house may pride herself on all her lovely things; but the moment she hears the crackle of fire she decides very quickly which are the few she values the most.

I'm sure there are a great many things I don't know about these women in their splendid dresses, but I often have the feeling that without their wealthy husbands or boyfriends, many of them would be struggling to get by and might not bare the same proud opinions of themselves. And of course, the same thing is true for a first-class Geisha.

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.

When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.

The house is two stories high and has seven rooms. It would have cost perhaps fifteen thousand in the early twenties when it was built.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is, you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

Why must everybody like you? Who liked J. P. Morgan? Was he impressive? In a Turkish bath he'd look like a butcher. But with his pockets on he was very well liked.

once upon a time I used to think that when I got money again I would have a maid and my wife would take it easy. Now I got money, and I got a maid, and my wife is workin' for the maid.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.

Caci avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu atat ti-e mai este. La fel este si gloria.

To be irritated by trifles, a man must be well off; for in misfortunes trifles are unfelt. SECTION

But inherited wealth reaches its utmost value when it falls to the individual endowed with mental powers of a high order, who is resolved to pursue a line of life not compatible with the making of money; for he is then doubly endowed by fate and can live for his genius; and he will pay his debt to mankind a hundred times, by achieving what no other could achieve, by producing some work which contributes to the general good, and redounds to the honor of humanity at large.

Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.

In short, a large part of the powers of the human race is taken away from the production of what is necessary, in order to bring what is superfluous and unnecessary within the reach of a few.