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Quotes About Wealth

Er kam daher, den Kopf in den Wolken, ein Lächeln um die Lippen und mit der heiteren Miene derer, die es sich leisten können, nicht zu wissen, wie die Welt funktioniert.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Drapacz chmur to po prostu katedra dla ludzi, którzy zamiast wierzy? w Boga, wierzÄ… w mamonÄ™.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
a prosperous manufacturer of textile machinery who had built his fortune from nothing, by dint of great efforts and sacrifices, mostly other people's.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Esercito, matrimonio, Chiesa e banca: i quattro cavalieri dell'apocalisse.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Making money isn't hard in itself, what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Bea Aguilar was the very image of her mother and the apple of her father's eye. Redheaded and exquisitely pale, she always wore very expensive dresses made of silk or pure wool.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I've seen many strange things in my work, my friend, but a wealthy lawyer who leaves everything to go write sonnets is not part of the repertoire. -Ricardo Salvador
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
No es uno plenamente consciente de la codicia que se esconde en su corazón hasta que oye el dulce tintineo de la plata en el bolsillo.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Le moyen le plus efficace de rendre les pauvres inoffensifs est de leur apprendre à vouloir imiter les riches.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
El dinero es como cualquier otro virus: una vez pudre el alma del que lo alberga, parte en busca de sangre fresca.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds the—
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. In
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Salud, Amor, Dinero----y Tiempo Para Gozarlos.
~ Carol Weston
In fact, being the proud new owner of a gold mine seems like a big pain in the neck, frankly.
~ Carole Marsh
Everything in Pulchra's house is fabulously expensive
~ Caroline Lawrence
Our lives are structured around power symbols: money, authority, title, beauty, security.
~ Caroline Myss
Just remember, when you're old and alone, money makes a really poor companion.
~ Carolyn Brown
You mean like money?
~ Carolyn Brown
We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle—the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.
~ Carson McCullers
Es mucho mejor que nos quiten los beneficios de nuestro bolsillo a que nos roben las riquezas de nuestra mente y nuestra alma
~ Carson McCullers
Acting Up: The Atlanta Heiresses.
~ Catherine Mann
Don't need no more of this world's goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.
~ Catherine Marshall
Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences ever written: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. With these words, Jane Austen announced to her readers that they were about to meet such a man and the people eager to marry him off. What was more, they were going to have fun. The dark cynicism of Sense and Sensibility was largely gone, blown away by a clean, fresh wind.
~ Catherine Reef