Quotes About Wealth

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It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.

Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.

Gdyby mi wystarczy?o kilkadziesi?t tysi?cy rubli rocznie i komplet do wista, by?bym w Warszawie najszcz??liwszym cz?owiekiem- mówi? do siebie.- Ale poniewa? oprócz ?o??dka mam dusz?, która ?aknie wiedzy i mi?o?ci, wi?c musia?bym tam zgin??. W tej strefie nie dojrzewaj? ani pewnego gatunku ro?liny, ani pewnego gatunku ludzie...

I...I loved him very much , and think that he too loved me - a little, when he looked back. But he was a poor officer and I, unfortunately, was a rich heiress and related to two generals. So they seperated us.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Ireland has a very different attitude to success than a lot of places, certainly than over here in the United States. In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard. It's a different mind-set.

The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Well, while I hope God is with those of us who live such comfortable lives, I know God is with the poorest and most vulnerable.

Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff.

which begs a question. What precisely is genius? I believe that genius is not a person but a process, a process in which someone determines to uncover their gift and, for a period, is able to step inside it. The "gift" is a self-explanatory state, and like a prize awarded in a DNA lotto—say, being born into beauty or into wealth—genius is no reason for arrogance.

I don't believe in riches, but you should see where I live.

Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The Rich stay healthy, the Sick stay poor.

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

persons who posses sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know how to give it away

rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work.

My experience in getting money for Tuskegee has taught me to have no patience with those people who are always condemning the rich because they are rich, and because they do not give more to objects of charity.

In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.

The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.