Quotes About Wealth

Fxck what they think..... Get the money.

Look in the mirror. Look at your bank account. Thats all the motivation you need.

The only motivation you need is to look at your bank account!!

The real difference between rich and poor is mindset.

Satisfying needs is the burden of the poor. The wealthy and the powerful can afford to indulge their wants and whims.

What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.

Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.

It made sense. But rich folk, they had a different word for the crapper. They'd call it a "commode" or a "washroom." That way, when someone asked for the crapper, they knew it was a person they needed to oppress.

Only super-rich folk built fancy doors. You needed money coming out your ears before you spent it on a door.

I doubt any dragon ever had it so good anyway.

Oh, my lord, I know it, I do." The beggar laughed. "I own the place, technically. Now, regarding those coins for old Hoid, my good lord…

Dalinar forced himself to be calm. "Roion, we cannot continue to treat this war as a game." "All wars are games. The greatest kind, with the pieces lost real lives, the prizes captured making for real wealth! This is the life for which men exist. To fight, to kill, to win.

Once we have our atium, we'll be happy." "Not to mention rich," Ham added. "The two words are synonyms, Hammond," Breeze said.

How did they decide what was valuable? Did they all just gather together, sit around in their suits and gowns, and say, "Oi. Let's start eatin' fish eggs, and make the stuff real expensive. That'll rust their brains, it will." Then they'd have a nice round of rich folks' laughter and throw some servants off the top of a building to see what kind of splats they'd make when they hit.

Death is the end of all men!" Dalinar bellowed. "What is the measure of him once he is gone? The wealth he accumulated and left for his heirs to squabble over? The glory he obtained, only to be passed on to those who slew him? The lofty positions he held through happenstance? "No. We fight here because we understand. The end is the same. It is the path that separates men. When we taste that end, we will do so with our heads held high, eyes to the sun.

Un hombre encuentra una sola moneda en el barro y habla de ello durante días, pero cuando le llega una herencia y es un uno por ciento menor de lo que esperaba, entonces se sentirá estafado.

Wayne liked how banks worked. They had style. Many people, they'd keep their money out of sight, hidden under beds and some such. What was the fun of that? But a bank Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a bank was a target. Building a place like this, then stuffing it full of cash, was like climbing atop a hill and daring anyone who approached to try to knock you off.

Course, that didn't mean luck didn't exist. You either believed in that, or you believed in what those Vorin priests were always saying—that poor people was chosen to be poor, on account of them being too dumb to ask the Almighty to make them born with heaps of spheres.

Les he mostrado que podemos sobrevivir, pero eso no significa nada. Si no merece la pena vivir esas vidas, no les va a importar nunca. Es como si les ofreciera montones de esferas, pero no les diera nada en lo que gastar sus riquezas. -Kaladin-

Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme.

Lem might have been poor in the kind of currency that paid taxes. But he was downright wealthy when it came to the kind of currency that mattered.

a bank was a target. Building a place like this, then stuffing it full of cash, was like climbing atop a hill and daring anyone who approached to try to knock you off.

To believe that the rich do not use their money to buy influence and promote policies they like is not simply to be naïve. Such a stance contradicts the key principles of economics as well as the ways in which the rich people have amassed their wealth—surely not by throwing it around while expecting no return on it.