Quotes About Wealth

RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you can never be --I had a mother who read to me.

To Americans, the outward display of intelligence is considered unseemly. The Donald Trumps of the world can boast about their penthouses and Ferraris, their women can wear baubles the size of Nebraska, and no one says boo. If you have money, you're almost always expected to flaunt it. But intellect? This is something else entirely. Women, especially, are supposed to play dumb.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven't had your fair share.

Or, perhaps, Hillary and Jack Coulter, since she was the one with all the money, and there was a great deal of it. He added a couple of paragraphs to the memo he was sending to the tax and finance department of his law firm, Woodman & Weld, where his suggestions would be reviewed to keep him out of trouble. His phone buzzed.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

We noticed a lady coming to. us rather frequently. She'd come in a Cadillac, park three blocks away and walk over. She belonged to a class I used to call the well-dressed destitute. She had the clothes, she had the Cadillac, but she didn't have any money.

Money brings security, that was the idea. But it turned out to be just the opposite. If you have a great big house, that meant you had to be fearful again: somebody might rob you. If you had a great big store, you had to be fearful now that there's gonna be a riot—and everything in your store would be stolen. See, money brings more fear than security.

We have two Governments in Washington: one run by the elected people—which is a minor part—and one run by the moneyed interests, which control everything.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body." – George Carlin, Author, Actor and Comedian

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

All told, in the colonial period, Europeans increased their share of global GDP from 20 to 60 per cent, Hickel points out. 'Europe didn't develop the colonies. The colonies developed Europe.' The Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle sums it up: 'We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them.

Life is wealth and relationships are wealth. Domination, subjugation, exploitation, and the luxury of looking away is a poverty of the soul.

Magnanimity does not make you affluent but it buy you gems a affluent can't..

I don't think my parents ever knew what they did for us. They were to busy doing what needed to be done. As far as we as she was concerned, we were rich as Rockefeller; I never heard her wish for more. She made us feel like we had everything, and we though so, too.

We didn't have a lot of money but just enough, apparently. because we had the basics, warm beds, clean jammies, friends, shoes, grilled cheese sandwiches, and parents wno loved us. I always thought we were rich because I felt so happy.

While chasing birds, he had hitchhiked through some of the most desolate places imaginable. Nicaraguan jungles, Indian slums, Samoa fruit bat colonies. But when asked to name the least likable place he'd seen in the world, he instantly pointed to an affluent California suburb: Walnut Creek, no question.

I think that so-called capitalism and trade is a very important element in giving people opportunity.

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

Me? I'm no sob story. I get paid well, and I live comfortably.

I made money in my 20s, became sober in my 30s, looked around, and didn't know who I could trust for money advice.

I think that soccer is one thing, and money is another thing.

Social networks, professional networks, offices, and schools help keep high earners in place.