Quotes About Wealth

Do you want some simple but extremely rare advice? Here it is: If you want to get rich, focus on making, keeping, and investing your money. If you want to get poor, focus on spending your money.

Tu patrón del dinero determinará tu economía, e incluso tu vida personal. Si eres una mujer cuyo patrón del dinero está programado para poco, lo más probable es que atraigas a un hombre que también esté programado para poco y así puedas permanecer en tu «zona de comodidad» financiera y validar tu patrón.

La clave del éxito es elevar tu propia energía. Cuando lo hagas atraerás a la gente hacia ti de forma natural. Y cuando se pongan a tiro, ¡pásales la factura!». PRINCIPIO DE RIQUEZA: ¡Tus ingresos pueden crecer únicamente hasta donde crezcas tú!

Poor people trade their time for money. The problem with this strategy is that your time is limited. This means that you invariably end up breaking Wealth Rule #1, which states, "Never have a ceiling on your income." If you choose to get paid for your time, you are pretty much killing your chances for wealth.

Los ricos creen que «puedes tener el pastel y también comértelo». La gente de clase media cree que «el pastel es demasiado "rico", así que sólo tomaré un trocito». Los pobres no creen que merezcan pastel, de modo que piden una rosquilla, se centran en el agujero y se preguntan cómo es que no tienen «nada».

La gente rica entiende que el orden para el éxito es SER, HACER, TENER. La gente pobre y de clase media cree que el orden para el éxito es TENER, HACER, SER.

Lo que no se ve es lo que crea lo que se ve. Y eso ¿qué significa? Significa que si quieres cambiar los frutos tendrás que modificar primero las raíces. Si quieres cambiar lo visible, antes deberás transformar lo invisible. PRINCIPIO DE RIQUEZA: Si quieres cambiar los frutos, tendrás que modificar primero las raíces. Si quieres cambiar lo visible, antes deberás transformar lo invisible.

si quieres hacerte rico, céntrate en ganar, en conservar y en invertir tu dinero. Si quieres ser pobre, céntrate en gastarte el dinero.

He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.

Believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success."-Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

The crucial point is not how much somebody pays in taxes but rather how much she has left after paying. This biblical lesson has been invoked time and again to justify a tax code that calls on the rich to pay higher rates than the poor.

Recently, there has been considerable public concern about the fact that 47% of Americans pay no income tax; the presidential candidate Mitt Romney opined that these are people "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them. . . . These are people who pay no income tax.

BBLR means that if the tax base—that is, the total amount of income, or sales, or property that can be taxed—is kept as large as possible, then the tax rate—that is, the percentage that people have to give to the government—can be kept low. Virtually all economists and tax experts agree that this is the best way to run a tax regime.

The American sage Will Rogers captured this concept precisely. Of course people like low taxes, Rogers said, but there's something even more important: "People want JUST taxes, more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Only the richest smidgen of the population had to file a return, and even for them the top tax rate was just 7%.

The income tax burden, he says, should fall more heavily on those who make their money on financial dealing; he says the U.S. system, in which the tax on capital gains is much lower than the tax on wages and salaries, is simply upside-down and thus counterproductive for dealing with the growth of inequality.

If this 80% top marginal rate were applied to earnings over $500,000, Piketty says, the tax regime would help to even out inequality without stunting economic growth. Beyond the income

The widest definition of "wealthy" is in India, where a 1% wealth tax kicks in for anybody whose net worth is more than 3 million rupees, which comes to about $45,000. (In India, that still means a small percentage of the population.)

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. —Albert Einstein

We no longer accumulate to live; we live to accumulate.

Aquello en lo que nos concentramos se expande, y cuando nos concentramos en las bondades de la vida, creamos más bondad. Las nuevas oportunidades, mis relaciones con los demás, hasta el dinero empezaron a aparecer con más frecuencia en mi camino cuando aprendí a ser agradecida en toda circunstancia de mi vida.» –OPRAH WINFREY

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.