Quotes About Wealth

Was he so ignorant of human nature as not to know that a comfortable bank balance and an appreciation of good food and tobacco and well-cut clothes and jewels can go perfectly well in practice, in normal beings, with the keenest sensibility to the spiritualities of art?

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

He was fleeced, robbed; and yet he was the exploiter. The government, unhesitatingly obliging to the majority, pocketed his taxes, and allowed him to be bled.

La ricchezza addobba spazi che poi lascia vuoti

Anarchists present a new method; the free initiative of all and free agreement; then, after the revolutionary abolition of private property, every one will have equal power to dispose of social wealth.

Any man who has $10 000 left when he dies is a failure.

Anyone who dies with more than a nickel in their pocket is a damn fool

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain't got nothing. That's how it looks to me. Don't seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain't got no time to fool with us poor folks.

Had Africa's mineral wealth not been plundered, had its people not been enslaved and made subjects, the possibilities for its future would be limitless.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

There have always been two ways to be rich: by accumulating vast sums or by needing very little.

Love's not for the poor, son. No time for it.

the biggest things command the highest prices. If we haven't the means to pay for a big thing when it is offered us, we must just let it go. But if we have—well, I guess we'd be wise to sell out all the little things and secure it. Those same little things are so almighty small in comparison

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Getters don't get--givers get.

Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financial management, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments.

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.

America leads the world at present in golden-calf production.