Quotes About Wealth

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

Infrastructure is the great space shrinker, and power, wealth and status increasingly belong to those who know how to shrink space, or know how to benefit from space being shrunk.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

Money won't buy you happiness. Money won't buy you love. Money won't buy you health. But the way I see it is--give me the money and I'll rent them.

Success is relative. The more success, the more relatives.

Have you seen the well to do? Up and down Park Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare, With their noses in the air? High hats and arrowed collars, Wide spats and fifteen dollars. Spending every dime, For a wonderful time.

To me it appears that the names of those ought to be written in letters of gold, who died so cruel a death, for the service of God and His Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness, and to procure wealth which all men desire.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'on est pauvre qu'on est vertueux, et ce n'est pas parce qu'on est riche qu'on est égoïste.

She realized that knowing someone comes from money isn't the same as witnessing the extent of it in close proximity

who loves to immerse herself in a universe where fiscal cells split off to create gazillions of replicas of themselves spinning off into beautiful infinity the glittering stars of wealth that make the world go around

she realized that knowing someone comes from money isn't the same as witnessing the extent of it in close proximity

According to the Institute for Policy Studies (Anderson, Collins, Klinger, Pizzigati, 2011) the ratio between a CEO and an average company salary stood at 42 to 1 back in 1980, while it climbed to 263 to 1 and to 325 to 1 in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

You can't become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

The rich and large corporations get richer, the CEOs earn huge compensation packages, and when things get bad, don't worry; Uncle Sam and the American taxpayers are here to bail you out. But when you are in trouble, well, we just can't afford to help you, if you are in the working class or middle class of this country.

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reminded us: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That's what they do. That is the essence of their politics. They get one group to fight another group while their wealthy friends and campaign contributors get richer and laugh all the way to the bank.

We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don't think that is the nation we should be living in.

more tax breaks for the very rich is only one symptom of an economic and political system that is grotesquely failing the average American.

In 2007, the top 1 percent earned 23.5 percent of all income, more than the bottom 50 percent. The top 1 percent now owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. That is not the foundation of a democratic society. That is the foundation for an oligarchic society. The rich get richer. The middle class shrinks. Poverty increases.

when we talk about justice, we have to, in my view, understand that there is no justice when so few have so much and so many have so little.