Quotes About Wealth

Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Their

Booth Tarkington

They were middle-aged men who had grown soft with success and harder because of it,

Of course, we Chinese are not allowed to own land, but Thai landowners are always in need of money.

Marriage is an important step in a man's life, but I confess I don't understand why we have to spend'so much money in celebrating the perpetuation of our race. Ceremonies are only a show of wealth, at best a gesture of good will toward our friends, and I think perhaps it all goes too far. I wonder if you agree with me

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The poor man finds happiness in economy; the rich man, misery.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent, so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber,

His personal wealth was larger than the gross domestic product of Hungary; larger than even the market capitalization of General Motors.

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

In the spring of 2011, Amazon was valued at $80 billion. Buoyed by the rise of his stock holdings, the forty-seven-year-old Bezos was the thirtieth richest person in the world, with an $18.1 billion net worth.

jeff was always an expansive thinker, but access to capital was an enabler

Luckily, Dixie, Ernie, and the two girls, Sissy and Mary Ann, all loved his money. Money was power, no question about it. Sanders remembered how his father used to recite the Golden Rule—he who has the gold makes the rules. And Sanders had the gold. The power. The control. And

PSA: The rich are very good at using generosity to get what they want.

If you are reading this, you were born in the top one percent of history's population, no question about it. You've experienced luxuries that painfully few people in the history of mankind could have even imagined. Yet instead of appreciating that, instead of doing more to help those beneath us, we attack those who got even luckier for not doing enough.

If you think about it, Bruce Wayne's only superpower was tremendous wealth.

Windsor Horne Lockwood III was born to great wealth. He did not pretend otherwise. He did not like multibillionaires who bragged about their business acumen when they'd started out with Daddy's billions. Genius is almost irrelevant in the pursuit of enormous riches anyway. In fact, it can be a hindrance. If you are smart enough to see the risks, you might try to avoid them. That type of thinking—safe thinking—never led to great wealth. Win