Quotes About Wealth

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.

The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got, that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go.