Quotes About Wealth

No one is poor who has an abundance of love to share with others.

We are all materialistic. There are different levels of materialism! Some aspire to a fancy car, others only wish to go to bed at night with a full stomach.

Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I think!

A bar of gold means much more to a pauper than to a king

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

On my way over to Park Avenue to find a cab I pass an ugly, homeless bum-- a member of the genetic underclass-- and when he softly pleads for change, for anything, I noticed the Barnes & Noble book bag that sits next to him on the steps of the church he's begging on and I can't help but smirk, out loud, Oh right, like YOU read...

BMW." He smiles. "Little black beamer.

Back at our table Reeves is telling Hamlin about how he taunts the homeless in the streets, about how he hands a dollar to them as he approaches and then yanks it away and pockets it right when he passes the bums.

I feel naked, suddenly tiny. My mouth tastes metallic, then it gets worse. My vision: a winter road. But I'm left with one comforting thought: I am rich—millions are not.

Like these girls care," Price snorts. "When I tell them what my annual income is, believe me, my behavior couldn't matter less.

The next morning over a breakfast of bran muffins and kiwi and Evian water and wheatgrass juice, Ann mentioned something about buying a BMW and I had to hold back a scream. It was clear that this had not been my best term; it was clear that I was losing it

I poked fun at rich friends growling about the unfairness of the Electoral College over a dinner at Spago that cost thousands of dollars, and took Meryl Streep to task for her outraged anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes the same week she'd put her Greenwich Village townhouse on the market for thirty million dollars.

when wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice—

Locate an evil, and you'll find the love of money at or near the root of it.

One day, J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil called Read to tell him that he had $136,000 that he had to get rid of, for some arcane tax reason, in the next twenty-four hours-and would Read, along with Howard Kershner of Christian Economics (a more right-wing religious education group Pew also supported) figure out among themselves what they could best do with it? Thanks. And they did.

The progress of markets and wealth in the past centuries has eliminated many aspects of day-to-day early American life that strike us today as tyrannical, from the sharp distinctions of rank, the religion-based social control in the towns, and of course the most prominent stain on America's libertarian heritage, the status of blacks and women.

Expensive depends on your means.

Those who have everything value nothing. Those who have nothing value everything. —RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL, Assessments of Philosophical Revelations

An Emperor rules through wealth, military might, alliances, and influence. But he keeps his rule through the wisdom of his decisions, the respect of his subjects, and the momentum of history. Should he lose any one of those factors, his position is greatly weakened.

capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.

I submit that the true test of progress is not the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few, but the elevation of a people as a whole.

If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.