Quotes About Wealth

separating some people from their fortune would simplify their lives and bring great benefits in the form of healthy stressors.

One of life's machinations is to make some people both rich and unhappy, that is, jointly fragile and deprived of hope.

This argument is not against adopting governmental educational policies for noble aims such as reducing inequality in the population, allowing the poor to access good literature and read Dickens, Victor Hugo, or Julien Gracq, or increasing the freedom of women in poor countries, which happens to decrease the birth rate. But then one should not use the excuses of "growth" or "wealth" in such matters.

Wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.

Take a population of 10 people, 9 having a net worth of $ 30,000 and 1 having a net worth of $ 1,000. The average net worth is $ 27,100 and 9 out of 10 people will have above average wealth.

I may never know if Onassis was skilled or lucky, though I am convinced that his charm opened doors for him

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

wealth itself does not really make one happy (above, of course, some subsistence level); but positive changes in wealth may

he had already been financially independent

Croesus, King of Lydia, was considered the richest man of his time. To this day Romance languages use the expression "rich as Croesus" to describe a person of excessive wealth.

You can tell people who come from countries with rent seeking; they think that business is zero-sum: wealth is money taken from others.

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

emotions depended on how frequently he checked his portfolio.

how rich you'd be today had you liquidated your portfolio at the height of the NASDAQ bubble).

Nero should have felt just as proud—and satisfied—had the envelope contained statements of losses.

that wealth leads to the rise of education

as he can carry a library on his device and "optimize" his time between golf outings.

the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

At the limit, you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.

true wealth consists in worriless sleeping, clear conscience, reciprocal gratitude, absence of envy, good appetite, muscle strength, physical energy, frequent laughs, no meals alone, no gym class, some physical labor (or hobby), good bowel movements, no meeting rooms, and periodic surprises, then it is largely subtractive (elimination of iatrogenics).

Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain.

the easier it was to make money.

They were financially free, and secure, not because of their means but because of their lack of wants.

Lúcio Aneu Sêneca foi um filósofo que por acaso era a pessoa mais abastada do Império Romano, em parte graças a sua esperteza comercial, em parte por ter atuado como conselheiro do extravagante imperador