Quotes About Wealth

But what could I want with riches? The true wealth is the love of one's people.

la característica de una clase privilegiada es siempre la misma: la posesión del ocio, como única gran recompensa de su condición.

Riose laughed suddenly. He foresaw that? Then he foresaw wrong, my good scientist. I suppose you call yourself that. Why, the Empire is more powerful now than it has been in a millennium. Your old eyes are blinded by the cold bleakness of the border. Come to the inner worlds some day; come to the warmth and the wealth of the center.

Pues... la gente que quiere distribuir un poco la riqueza y desea evitar que se concentre en manos que no son las que la producen. ¿Comprende lo que quiero decir?

No matter how the economy and sociology of the neighboring sectors of the Galaxy changed, there was always an elite; and it is always the characteristic of an elite that it possesses leisure as the great reward of its elite-hood.

You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich.

No hay peor pobreza que la de la gente venida a menos, porque se debe aparentar lo que no se tiene.

As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.

It's hard to make money working; and the harder the work, the worse the pay. It takes effort not to lose everything and end up on the street. It's easy, on the other hand, to get rich without producing anything, moving money from one place to another, speculating, taking advantage of stock opportunities, investing in the hard work of others.

La Lowell wanted nothing; she lived for the day, unfettered, free, fearless; she wasn't afraid of poverty, loneliness, or infirmity. She accepted everything with good grace; for her, life was an entertaining voyage that inevitably led to old age and death. There was no point in accumulating wealth since in the end, she maintained, we all go to the grave in our birthday suit.

El cuento de que los niños merecen felicidad lo inventó Walt Disney para ganar plata.

Multitud de niñas ricas con mente pobre.

After love, the worst fixation is gold

La riqueza envilece el alma, complica la existencia y engendra infelicidad, sostenía.

In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.

Aunque estuviera en mala situación, desde ese día en adelante iba a gastar en las pequeñas comodidades que lo hacían sentirse rico

El dinero lo aburría, porque siempre lo había tenido.

Puedo anotar mis recuerdos y pensamientos con tinta y papel gracias al clérigo González de Marmolejo, quien se dio tiempo, entre su trabajo de evangelizar salvajes y consolar cristianos, para enseñarme a leer. Entonces era capellán, pero llegó a ser el primer obispo de Chile y también el hombre más rico de este reino, como contaré más adelante.

The man of good heart maintained that a moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics (religious people) who faithfully go to mass (church) deny their workers a dignified wage. These words should be engraved on the thousand-peso note, so we never forget them.

Pedro Tercero tuvo que renunciar a sus paseos al pueblo, porque su padre lo requería a su lado. Lo secundaba de mal humor, haciéndole notar que se partían el lomo por volver a poner en pie la riqueza del patrón, pero que ellos seguían siendo tan pobres como antes. —Siempre ha sido así, hijo. Usted no puede cambiar la ley de Dios —le replicaba su padre.

Chile, unlike other regions of the continent, did not offer the possibility of wealth beyond dreams. Gold and silver mines could be counted on the fingers of one hand, and the minerals had to be torn from the rock with unspeakable effort. Neither did Chile have the climate for prosperous tobacco, coffee, or cotton plantations. Ours has always been a country with one foot in the poorhouse; the most that the colonist could aspire to was a quiet life dedicated to agriculture.

De Atahualpa se decía que tenía miles de doncellas en su serrallo y una multitud incalculable de esclavos

la peor pobreza es la de cuello y corbata, porque hay que disimularla

nadie se hace rico en un empleo ni invirtiendo con prudencia; el futuro es de los audaces.