Quotes About Wealth

Listen carefully to what I am saying—and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes." NEVER WITHOUT A STORY

When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are.

Under capitalism, money occupies the ontological throne from which God has been evicted.

Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value.

Perhaps the starkest measure of the failure of our economic policies," Binyamin Appelbaum writes, "is that the average American's life expectancy is in decline, as inequalities of wealth have become inequalities of health.

Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagine it as water, with only blameless gravity participating in the accumulation of wealth.

TIAA is the largest agricultural investor in the world, the third largest commercial real estate manager in the world, and number 80 on the Fortune 500.

in this approach, is determined by how much you have of three kinds of capital—economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital. Or, what you own, what you know, and who you know.

Having virtually invented a paid profession and being almost exclusively available to the rich, doctors were suspect to the working class.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive," John Kenneth Galbraith writes in the great first sentence of The Affluent Society. "But, beyond doubt, wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding.

We shouldn't ask our rich to be good, in other words, we should ask our economic system to be better.

Your class, in this approach, is determined by how much you have of three kinds of capital—economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital. Or, what you own, what you know, and who you know.

Nearly all people in nearly all nations, for nearly all of human history, he observes, have been poor. Widespread poverty is not an anomaly. But widespread affluence is.

Perhaps the starkest measure of the failure of our economic policies," Binyamin Appelbaum writes, "is that the average American's life expectancy is in decline, as inequalities of wealth have become inequalities of health." Meanwhile, life remains the ultimate privilege, the living lording over the dead.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Money is the wise man's religion

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

I care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

ECCLES: That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money.