Quotes About Wealth

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth. p 290

Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

you, the privileged, the chosen, the pampered, with nothing to do but go to school, hang out, do a little studying, go to college, get into a money-making racket, grow into your fat forties, still whining, still complaining, when there are millions around the world who'd offer fingers and toes to be in your seats, nicely clothed, well fed, with the world by the balls.

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

Litigation A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

The only real avenue for social mobility was that of the freedman, for the manumitted slave could rise higher in Rome than in any other slave society. It takes an effort of imagination to conceive of a society where vast wealth was concentrated in so few hands; perhaps the nearest modern equivalent would be Saudi Arabia.34

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

Never, never, never should a penny of that miraculous fortune be spent; rather should it be added to. It was a nest egg, a monstrous, roc-like nest egg, not so large, however, but that it could be made larger. Already by the end of that winter Trina had begun to make up the deficit of two hundred dollars that she had been forced to expend on the preparations for her marriage.

Her avarice had grown to be her one dominant passion; her love of money for the money's sake brooded in her heart, driving out by degrees every other natural affection.

His stories were so popular that Edwin Lefèvre, the author of the articles in the Saturday Evening Post, assembled them into a bestselling book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.24 During the years after the book's publication, Livermore lost the entire $100 million he had made betting on the markets, and then shot himself

No one does antimaterialism better than multigazillionaire rock stars.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

It is not a tax bill but a tax relief bill providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.