Quotes About Wealth

Aren't the trunks stupid?" she whispered. "He says it gives the place a little authenticity. He didn't like the renovation." So the house had been a compromise: The husband wanted vintage, Susan wanted new, so they thought this outside/inside split might settle things. But the Burkes ended up more resentful than satisfied. Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.

Correction, he had $4.30 in his pocket

Ben thought that was how you could tell the difference between most people. It wasn't I'm a dog person and I'm a cat person or I'm a Chiefs fan and I'm a Broncos guy. It was whether you cared about quarters. To him, four quarters was a dollar. A stack of quarters was lunch. The amount of quarters those little shits threw out the window that day could have bought him half a pair of jeans.

Some argue the days of furthering or bettering oneself through a liberl arts education are gone, but that's true only if furthering and bettering means making more money...For many life reveals itself more intimately in literature than in ledgers.

L'istruzione, e la ricchezza, posson essere sorgente di bene e di male, a seconda delle intenzioni colle quali s'adoperano.

money has no provenance. It's never dirty, only the people who handle it are.

Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account. -Sinead Starling

That's the whole point of being rich," I explain patiently. "What good is it if nobody's jealous?

Dan shrugged. "Maybe when you're rich, shopping takes longer, since you get to buy more stuff.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.

say very mildly, we have only one political party in the U.S., the Property Party, with two right wings, Republican and Democrat.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

But a country which can be saved only by money is a lost country anyway. After all, what is the choice, really? On the one hand: catastrophic capitalism, and on the other a capital catastrophe.

Now-a-days lower Broadway is blocked with traffic at this hour and everyone walks; even the decrepit John Jacob Astor can be seen crawling along the street like some ancient snail, his viscous track the allure of money. Instead

As we rounded a small pavilion, we nearly stepped into a pair of figures — who leapt apart. One was William de la Touche Clancey. The other was a well-made boy of perhaps sixteen, carefully got up to resemble a swell; only the red blunt hands betrayed the fact that he was a workie. So! Clancey gave his accusing goose-like hiss. The boy looked embarrassed, as well he should. There are some things that the poor ought not to do even for money.

Fortune was not a house full of gold and jade, but something much more.

You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.

opio ni siquiera era entonces una droga nociva: el láudano era un sedante nada más. Y empleado por los pudientes, que los pobres no podían costearse. La religión es el válium del pobre, eso es

he looked as a man might look who owned the whole world, the whole

I drive through the streets and I care not a damn, The people they stare, and they ask who I am; And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

Batman knew what it was like to trip balls without seriously losing his shit, and that savoir faire added another layer to his outlaw sexiness and alluring aura of decadence and wealth.

Even if it was against his will every time, Batman was hip to serious mind bending drugs. Batman knew what it was like to trip balls without seriously losing his shit, and that savoir faire added another layer to his outlaw sexiness and alluring aura of decadence and wealth.

In 1850, Natchez boasted more millionaires than every city in America except New York and Philadelphia