Quotes About Wealth

Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Come, come, come? I'm not asking for hundreds of pounds, just a little to start with. Will someone say ten shillings?' 'I can say it, Father' said Milligan, 'but I haven't got it.' 'I've got it,' thought Dr Goldstein, 'but I'm not going to say it.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

People lose half of their health to gain wealth, and they lose half of their wealth to regain their health. When I had all my teeth. I had no nuts to chew, and now that I got the nuts, I have no teeth to chew. Caught up between gaining and losing, they lose their entire life.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.

Even Fortune herself has had an adverse fortune.

the relation between crime and poverty is no more essential than between crime and wealth." Where were the standing armies of police to monitor the crimes of the elite?

Her palace shimered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.

Be intelligent. Be responsible. The religious freedom practiced today is unparalleled. You must practice it yourself if you want others to practice it with respect to your own beliefs. The richness of diversity is a wealth we all share.

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Backed into a corner, the poor can riot, but the rich start war.

He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.

It is generally accepted that getting rich is the only and typical goal of the Jew. Nothing could be further from the truth. Riches are to him merely a stepping stone, a means to the true end, and in no sense the real goal. The real determination of the Jew is to rise to a higher cultural plane in the intellectual world.

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great display of it.

ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money.

Es el asombro eterno que en cada rincón de la Tierra, siente todo hijo de la naturaleza ante los hijos de la cultura, para quienes un puñado de metal amarillo tiene más valía que todos los logros técnicos y espirituales.

His thick-skinned placidity was unassailable. Calmness, toughness of mind, indefatigable and stubborn patience, these were his most salient traits. It was thanks to his unusual modesty and reserve, to his total lack of false ambition, and to his artless simplicity of demeanor, that so notable and so wealthy a man numbered among his innumerable acquaintances in Viennese society no enemies but only friends.

Cómo no iban a apodersarse los deliriros de grandeza de un campesino del Banato si de pronto, a los veintiún años, con sólo mover unas figuritas sobre un tablero de madera, ganaba más en una semana que su pueblo entero en todo un año de talar bosques y realizar las tareas más duras?

Es ist das ewige Staunen aller Naturkinder an allen Enden der Erde über die Kulturmenschen, denen eine Handvoll gelbes Metall kostbarer erscheint als alle geistigen und technischen Errungenschaften ihrer Kultur.