Quotes About Wealth

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

Money has always been the primary language of power.

Morality's like mink," I said. "It's great if you can afford it.

They say that even now, despite all the reform, it's only a question of knowing the right people and having a bit of money to spend on the election.

before he died Francis' father had ordered that the gutters and gargoyles be painted gold, and the innovation had enabled the house to achieve a new and unbelievable pitch of vulgarity. I am incapable of further description; all I can add is that Greek ideas had married Gothic affectations in the architectural plans, and the marriage had not been a happy one.

She didn't know the going price of cattle on the hoof, or the per acre value of land in this part of the country, but from what she could tell, no Nicholson was ever going to die poor.

Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.

La pobreza no es más surreal que la riqueza; un cuerpo vestido con harapos mugrosos no es más surreal que una princesa vestida para un baile o un desnudo prístino.

Photography has become the quintessential art of affluent, wasteful, restless societies.

I suddenly realized, money can't buy happiness. But it sure as shit can take it away.

There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance." —William Longgood, The Queen Must Die

We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.

They'd had nothing—a rented spot in a trailer park and a car that was older than Mama herself. And yet Margie had never felt deprived. There was a richness to their lives that had nothing to do with the bank account. Their world was built on a foundation of love and trust between the two of them.

She wore almost no jewelry, which Rosa later learned was characteristic of women from the oldest and wealthiest families. Ostentation was for the nouveau riche.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money—only for wanting to keep your own money.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

i am not a millionaire son " but i make my son become the , millionaire son. by jostalin

America had created a marvelous economic machine, but evidently one that worked only for those at the top. "Of the 1% for the 1% by the 1%

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.