Quotes About Wealth

Julian Hawthorne

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

In this remarkable, complex world of ours, there are certain people who appear to lead charmed lives. They are blessed with natural beauty, have successful and fulfilling careers. They drive expensive cars, live in upscale neighborhoods, and are happily married to gorgeous and brilliant spouses.

luxury means little when there's no real freedom in the world

Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine.

Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way')

Why can someone get so sick that the only way to get better is to make them more sick? It's like the world's longest exorcism. It doesn't make sense that I can chat with someone live on a tiny screen, that governments spend billions of dollars on war and mayhem, that actors make millions of dollars to just look pretty and skinny, yet no one can fucking fi gure out how to cure cancer without torturing people.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Those who lead men to the conquest of material things have no need of justice and charity.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Las "libertades políticas" no son nada sin las libertades o la autonomia económica, sea en el terreno individual, o en el colectivo. En este último, porque en régimen democrático son los grupos en posesión de riqueza quienes controlan la prensa y todos los demás medios de formación de la "opinión pública" y de la propaganda.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

The purpose of #wealth is to #heal and not to #hoard. In your selfishness with your wealth you renounce your claim to it.

The sight of a rich man dying is one to shake all your assumptions about a free market economy; here

William's money, purpose, and pride eventually prevailed over all the resistance and resentment he provoked. He could outspend, outcollect, outentertain, and outbuild anyone in England.

BY THE 1890s the Astor estate, comprising the assets of both cousins, was worth about $200 million. In the 1930s the historian Burton J. Hendrick called it "the world's greatest monument to unearned increment…a first mortgage on Fate itself.

the Waldorf-Astoria crystallized the improbable and fabulous. It was more than a mere hotel. It was a vast, glittering, iridescent fantasy that had been conjured up to infect millions of plain Americans with a new idea—the aspiration to lead an expensive, gregarious life as publicly as possible.

But I have many things. I have a beautiful home, a thriving business, and the most super wife a man could wish for.

these two people who had everything money could buy but the one thing that could be given freely: love.

For even though the rest of the city--no, the rest of the country--starved and searched fruitlessly for work and slept in a humpy in the park, society's finest could still squander their money however they saw fit. The unemployed, they would say, were lazy. If they worked harder, they'd do as well as Mr. Harry Moneypants was doing, who'd earned his vast fortune by having the foresightedness of selecting rich parents, who had, in their time, also cleverly selected rich parents.

Chrysostom earned the virulent hatred of many among the powerful when, at the Cathedral of St. Sophia in the imperial capital, he dared follow this understanding of the gospel to its consequences, declaring that the enormous differences between the rich and the poor and between the ruling classes and the rest of the population were incompatible with the gospel itself.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.