Quotes About Wealth

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

The Jet Set Way"

Not that I believe throwing money at a problem solves the problem — unless the problem is lack of money.

Will: "Throwing money at a problem is not a solution." Tate: "It sure as shit is, if the problem is you don't have enough money.

She was exactly like her house, expensive and elegant, but not at all comfortable.

He was young, and he had grown up wealthy; he didn't have the context. In his head she'd faced the consequences he would have had to face. Embarrassment. An angry parent. A different, maybe less impressive school. He was not from a place where people got only one shot or were allowed only one mistake. In his world there were infinite chances.

The idea that anybody could work really hard for some extra savings, then employ those dollars into different businesses to work around the clock for them was, and still is, endlessly fascinating to me!

acceptance of charity from thieves and oppressors is the equivalent of abetting their crimes, and that the duty of alms giving belongs to everyone who possesses a minimum degree of wealth, not just aristocrats.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Money fixes everything, even nature, if there is enough of it.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have.

El suelo pobre produce al hombre rico, porque la pobreza del suelo estimula el trabajo del hombre al que más tarde debe este su riqueza.

Han visto cómo se enriquece el que detenta el poder?

Nowadays, our leaders prefer to search for the causes of crime and poverty in the actions or inaction of those at the very bottom of society. The obscene transfers of wealth over the past forty years from that bottom to a privileged few at the top--and from much of the Third World to financial elites in the West--are all excused as the natural evolution of the Market, when, in fact, they are products of unparalleled greed by those who shape and direct that Market.

Victoria Ocampo era por cierto una oligarca, pero no todas las oligarcas eran Victoria Ocampo. Las damas de la alta sociedad, como se decía entonces, no empleaban su dinero y su tiempo en la difusión de las letras ni abrazaban la causa del feminismo ni transgredían costumbres establecidas, ni se animaban a proclamar su agnosticismo; nada tenían en común con Victoria

Had I access to what is mine, I would shower you with jewels.

I fell in love with you and Max," he said, but he stared at the fire, not at her. He'd never before told a woman he loved her. He had a feeling that most of the women he'd known in New York would have responded by getting a calculator and figuring their cut of his wealth.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

Matthew gave her such a hurt, wistful, nobly forbearing, and absolutely infuriating look that if Caroline had been a rich aunt she would have cut him out of her will on the spot.

The man is a syndicated columnist. He's got to be rolling in dough.

Judith Krantz