Quotes About Wealth

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

No aristocrat would sit in the wild grass to dream. Aristocrats have gardens for that, if they dream at all.

book collecting is only meaningful if it's personal," Oscar clarified. "If it's just another way of accumulating wealth instead of for the books themselves it isn't right. Collectors are trying to protect themselves. To separate themselves. It's a hierarchy.

Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

Democracy implies government by the people. Aristocracy implies a government of the rich … and in those words are contained the sum of party distinction.

I like money very well. It is the means to independence and authority.

She understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.

Woods brings a deft touch to untangling very complicated family ties! The moment Amanda defied her rich and powerful father to marry Bobby O'Leary, Big Max disowned her. Even now, with Bobby dead and Amanda mired in debt, he refuses to forgive her. But Caleb, the new man in Amanda's life, is determined to mend fences between

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have.

Possessions mean power, the right to say, 'Do this' or 'Do that.' If you struggle long and hard for a thing it becomes infinitely sweet to you.

Be careful. Don't get too close to the truth when talking with the rich,' I was whispering to myself.

The more one has, the less one desires.

Just as twenty-first century masters of the universe exploit workers, lobby for tax loopholes, and devise or reap profits from predatory business practices, [Thomas] Jefferson and his peers found it very hard to give up the unearned advantages of systems of exploitation.

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.