Quotes About Wealth

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,And almost every vice—almighty gold.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!

this vacuum at the heart of privilege

only ever stole from those who had money to spare and remained adamant that crime need not involve thuggery: the Pinkertons found it astonishing that "throughout his career he never used a revolver or jeopardized the life of a victim.

He was small, thin, greedy, clever, morally void, and monstrously bent. March "took corruption for granted,37 and used it casually and openly." He had been imprisoned for bribery and escaped to France, and by 1939 he was the richest, and dodgiest, man in Spain, nicknamed "the last pirate of the Mediterranean

are comparatively less well-off

Wealthy people own more stocks and real estate than the nonwealthy.

Never in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged—and yet so empty.

The Leon Trotsky wing of the university hates capitalism with a vengeance. According to this faction, capitalism does nothing good; it only broadens the gap between rich and poor and results in the exploitation of people for the sake of money.

Inequality by itself does not imply creation of poverty.

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve.

Abolishing private property means the unlimited right to redistribute wealth. "If the cause of poverty is the grossly unequal distribution of the world's wealth, then to end poverty, and with it the population crisis, we must redistribute that wealth, among nations and within them," says far-left Professor Barry Commoner.

If the wealthiest segment of the population has no money, who gives the poor their jobs? The government? There's a name for that economic philosophy—communism.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

The things which… are esteemed as the greatest good of all… can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."