Quotes About Wealth

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

Is this the time to receive money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, and male and female servants?

17He did all this so you would never say to yourself, 'I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy.

The meaning of man's life, as we have seen, is not measured by what he has, but by what he is. No matter how many possessions we have amassed, how much wealth we have accrued, how respected and secure our position is in society, how numerous the pieces of information we have accumulated, in moments of lucidity we may still abruptly perceive the dreadful futility of it all, the overwhelming emptiness and pointlessness of such a life.

Solomon Loeb, at his wife's insistence, had come to New York from Cincinnati and, though not on a par with the Seligmans' operations, his Kuhn, Loeb & Company was becoming an important investment banking house. In Philadelphia the Guggenheims were not doing at all badly. Meyer Guggenheim had

How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide of material wealth … men whose bank accounts are all they rely on for social position and influence.

Caroline, furthermore, was wan, pale, and dreamily beautiful, an exquisite creature who wept bitterly when she was told that families "of wretched poor" lived south of Canal Street, which was why her coachman would not drive her there.

When asked why a man sixty-nine years old, who had spent most of his life manufacturing and selling small household appliances, should suddenly at the end of his career fling himself into the construction of a major building, Mr. Clark replied, "To make money.

Twenty-five years earlier there had not been more than five men in the United States worth as much as five million dollars, and there were less than twenty who were worth a million. Now, however, the New York Tribune would report that there were several hundred men in the city of New York alone who were worth at least a million, and a number who were worth at least twenty million.

In the Clark apartment doorknobs and plates and hinges were overlaid with sterling silver.) There were inlaid marble floors, wrought-iron staircases, walls wainscoted in rare marbles and choice hardwoods, bronze lamp fixtures and railings in the elevator lobbies.

Joseph's gift to Babet was considered one of the decorative "musts" of the day—a gold-plated rolling pin, designed to show that its owner "no longer made her own bread, but was financially able to endure the strain of purchasing ready-made loaves at the grocer's.

seventeen rooms with six bathrooms and eight working fireplaces for $650. In 1884 these Dakota rents had seemed substantial. But the astonishing thing was that by 1960 they had risen hardly at all. Then

James Hazen Hyde gave his $200,000 ball at Sherry's, at which the ballroom was transformed into a replica of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.

No. 965 Fifth Avenue was a considerably more tasteful house than the old "house full of horrors" at 932.

There were the Steinways, for example (ironically

Probably to the filthy rich, toilets are disposable. Mario and Luigi are always standing by to switch a new one in after each use.

You know that easy money, stupid people, and hard times have a way of creating misery.

You know that easy money, stupid people, and hard times have a way of creating misery. Your

And here's why, as Paul went on to say: Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. (1 Timothy 6:9–10)

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

She wondered why white folks, who had everything, spent so much time fighting over who got how much, while black folks, who had nothing, just sat around feeling sorry for they selves.