Quotes About Wealth

In general, the well-off have the money to outsource their deforesting as they buy food and other commodities grown by clearing land in other countries. As we have seen, they don't stop deforesting, they just do it somewhere far from home.

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little.

His business might be defined as the lending of money exclusively to people who have no pressing need of it.

There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures. Nor can any description that I might offer here even approximate what it feels like to lose a real chunk of money that you used to own.

Other men like playing golf, but I like buying apartments.

Perhaps if you were a Jewess it might be different. He'd suspect you of wanting to hook me. And he wouldn't like that at all. Of course, if you were immensely rich he might, he just might consider a marriage possible — but even so he'd hate to hurt my mother's feelings. You see, he's still very much in love with her.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got.

Actually he did not need to earn a penny. By 1913 his mother and his aunt had left him two fair-size legacies. He kept both secret. Nobody in the Männerheim suspected him of an income that could have easily paid for quarters at a comfortable hotel.

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

Yevgeni Krilov knew he was in a room with the richest man in Russia, possibly the world. No one did a ruble's worth of business in Russia without paying a percentage fee to the supreme boss, albeit through a complex network of shell companies and front men.

The seven social evils are politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce and industry without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?

Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.

Nothing is more elegant than ready money!

It is impossible to overdo luxury

He is rich who owes nothing.

Ready money works great cures.

Open still remains a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesses little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!

He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.

Buying a lambo is stupid if you don't know how to use to make you money.

Don't prioritize wealth over health, the two go hand in hand.

Focus on your bag. Not your girl.