Quotes About Wealth

With so little input from labor, the proportion of this wealth that flows back to the machine owners—in this case, the venture investors—is without precedent. It's no wonder that a venture capitalist I interviewed for my last book admitted to me with some concern, "Everyone wants my job.

For example, it might be the case that 80 percent of a business's profits come from just 20 percent of its clients, 80 percent of a nation's wealth is held by its richest 20 percent of citizens, or 80 percent of computer software crashes come from just 20 percent of the identified bugs.

The thesis of this final chapter in part one therefore is that "a deep life is not just economically lucrative but also a life well lived

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity. This is by no means a doctrine of parsimony. Both men and nations should live in accordance with their means and devote their substance not only to productive industry, but to the creation of the various forms of beauty and the pursuit of culture which give adornments to the art of life.

But we are wealthy, and our purses are so heavy that we cannot carry both our goods and his cross. So we cling to our wallets and leave the cross bearing to those who have less to surrender.

Say the magic word and the duck will come down and pay you $100

Show me the money!

The rules only applied to people who couldn't afford different rules.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

El dinero no es fácil de encontrar, Victorita lo sabe muy bien. Hace falta suerte. Todo lo demás lo puede poner uno de su parte, pero la suerte no.

Savings, remember, is the prerequisite of investment.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Empiezo a preguntarme si no me habré equivocado contigo, lamentable criatura. Tienes que aprender que todo aquello que puede comprarse con una cierta cantidad de dinero no es realmente importante.

This is not something you or I do. This is something the poor do so that the rich get better drugs.

Yet even that equality within the American middle classes had started to erode. The new models of car, for example, were categorised by rank and status. For those starting out there was the Chevrolet, next came the Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks, while the seriously rich drove Cadillacs. Not only that; buying and consuming were increasingly a social norm. You had to drive a new Pontiac, and by 1959 anyone still riding around in a 1956 model was

Het vermogen van de rijkste vierhonderd Amerikanen is op dit moment groter dan dat van de armste honderdvijftig miljoen Amerikanen gezamenlijk.