Quotes About Wealth

The vast power of money, mighty when you have it and even mightier when you don't, with its divine gift of freedom and the demonic fury it unleashes on those forced to do without it—

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbour 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 rather than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

It is generally assumed that getting rich is a Jew's true and typical aim in life. Nothing could be further from the truth. Getting rich, to a Jew, is only an interim stage, a means to his real end, by no means his aim in itself. The true desire of a Jew, his inbuilt ideal, is to rise to a higher social plane by becoming an intellectual.

Di questi tempi è duro far gli spiritosi se non si è miliardari.

Struck down by the kind of nervous distress known only to the most modern of artists and then only those with a private income

not that I ought to grumble. I have money of my own, a luxurious home in excruciating taste, and all the clothes I want. All that is lacking is liberty, an aim to work for, and the conviction that my life is worth living. I am a most fortunate young woman.

L'Ollonais's men were reported to have blown through 260,000 pieces of eight, or $13.5 million in today's dollars, in three short weeks

I'm just saying that money is made in so many more interesting ways now.

I made my money and can spend it as I want, just as you can spend the money you make as you want.

Charlotte had enough money -- had always had enough money -- that she didn't have to worry about her behavior.

We all think we have our problems, but thank God we don't have husbands who don't support the Guggenheim.

Everyone else had funds galore, if not from their job- and it rarely seemed to be from their job except for the bankers- then from trust funds, parental subsidies, or other mythical sources.

For families with larger amounts of wealth, marriages in the ancient world were the equivalent of today's business mergers or investment partnerships.

I understood where her way of thinking came from. She had been the product of a wealthy and healthy two parent home. She had no clue how people from different walks of life struggled. In her eyes, the problems that people faced shouldn't've had an effect on how they turned out in life.

Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were?

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.

The most popular labor saving device is still money.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.