Quotes About Wealth

He made a gesture and a man came over from the other side of the room with the bottle, and refilled my snifter.  Having people around to do that is why one strives to be rich.

Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. Although dictatorships may benefit from or be somewhat weakened by international actions, their continuation is dependent primarily on internal factors.

I don't have to worry about the money at all, really. My dad left me with this trust fund. I can sit home and watch the viewscreen and drink vodka martinis, or go out and play hovertennis. It's terrific, what a life.

Dinks (Double Income, No Kids), or Henrys (High Earners, Not Rich Yet).

For gold in phisik is a cordial,Therefore he lovede gold in special.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heedTwenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,Of Aristotle and his philosophie,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie,But al be that he was a philosophre,Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

And yet he hadde a thombe of gold.

Fy on possessiounBut if a man be vertuous withal.

The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.

It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to create ideas and wealth, to enhance innovative thinking and encourage entrepreneurship and cultural activity by taking advantage of the extraordinary opportunities that the diversity of a great city offers.

bring in the big bucks or perish.

I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue.

I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue. [The Future of the Planet: Life, Growth and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies. SFI Community Lecture, August 29, 2017]

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say 'Gluttony'. They say 'Consumerism'.

From arrogance grow many branches from which evils come, so many as may cause the loss of soul and body, honor and wealth.

Many are the gurus who rob the disciple of his wealth, but rare is the guru who removes the afflictions of the disciple.

The wealthy have nothing left except money.

When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.

Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they always feel clammy and unworthy when under the scrutiny of the elect. Sit outside and appear indifferent, and after a while they may sent for you. If not, it will be money in your pocket.

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force

Any man who can spend a million a year and have nothing to show for it, don't need a recommendation from anybody. He's in a class by himself, and it's a business that no one else can give him a pointer about.