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Quotes About Wealth

Query 1. Whether there ever was, is, or will be, an industrious nation poor, or an idle rich?
~ George Berkeley
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going
~ George Bernard Shaw
Golf is typical capitalist lunacy
~ George Bernard Shaw
You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money
~ George Bernard Shaw
Pickering: Have you no morals, man?Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Property is organized robbery.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
~ George Bernard Shaw
I'm one of the undeserving poor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though those five-and-twenty be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in the possession of wealth, honors, respectability.
~ George Borrow
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
~ George Burns
I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.
~ George Burns
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
~ George Burns