Quotes About Wealth

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Life was meant to be warm and happy and lovely. Life was meant to be a sweet unhampered thing, joyful and gay. It should have everything in it,--wealth and travel and happiness and a career and friends and Allen. And if it couldn't have them all . . . oh, it ought to have Allen. It ought, anyway, to have Allen.... It had been as though in that one brief bitter-sweet moment, she had been swept again into some haven, had become the center of some great plan.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.16

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year.

Do all the people here feel as you do about the Indians?" "Some do, but the big cattle ranchers don't. They own the land now and it's made them rich. They don't care if the tribes are fenced in, starving, and destitute, as long as they can ship their beef. Anything else?

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

Poets are ever lords, though short of pence.

Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.

I don't think the upper 1 or 0.1 percent were ever tearing their hair out about Trump. They were ecstatic that somebody that right-wing, and that bigoted, came with a built-in fan base -- a cult following, even -- that you could never build from scratch with a Jeb Bush or a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio. Behind the scenes, they love this stuff. They think they can get away with so much more.

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.

Great riches come to many men by chance.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.