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Quotes About Wealth

What do you do if you've got everything?There's only one thing you can do. More.
~ Pete Waterman
Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.
~ Cecelia Ahern, Flawed
Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.
~ Shannon L. Alder
There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.
~ Lenny Bruce
They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.
~ Tupac Shakur
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
~ C. L. R. James
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
~ Warren Buffett
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
~ Plutarch
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.
~ George Carlin
Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.
~ Bernard Madoff
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
~ William Cobbett
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
~ Fidel Castro
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
~ Douglas MacArthur
All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
~ Plato
A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
~ Shelby Foote
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
~ Plato
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.
~ Kenneth Waltz
Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.
~ Ramsay MacDonald
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
~ Moliere
We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.
~ Joseph Lowery
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
~ Graham Greene
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
~ Abraham Cowley