Quotes About Wealth

When you become rich, the pain of losing your fortune exceeds the emotional gain of getting additional wealth, so you start living under continuous emotional threat.

get a profession that is "scalable," that is, one in which you are not paid by the hour and thus subject to the limitations of the amount of your labor.

Never buy when you can rent the three Fs

that classroom education does not lead to wealth as much as it comes from wealth

In these professions, no matter how highly paid, your income is subject to gravity.

Wealthy' is meaningless and has no robust absolute measure; use instead the subtractive measure 'unwealth,' that is, the difference, at any point in time, between what you have and what you would like to have.

Other professions allow you to add zeroes to your output (and your income), if you do well, at little or no extra effort.

Just like the income of the driver compared to that of bank employee.

activities. It separates those professions in which one can add zeroes of income with no greater labor from those in which one needs to add labor and time (both of which are in limited supply)

people do not realize that success consists mainly in avoiding losses, not in trying to derive profits.

setting wealth back by several decades

It is easier for the rich to get richer, for the famous to become more famous.

to make money you must first survive

Today, a few take almost everything; the rest, next to nothing.

chess grandmasters usually win by not losing; people become rich by not going bust (particularly when others do);

Era livre quem aceitava viver o que havia para ser vivido. Era livre quem fazia dos pensamentos saúde e riqueza, e não uma armadilha para acabar asfixiado.

Life always seems to have worries, even if you own a big and beautiful house on the best street in town.

At the other end....was provided a deep and cushioned seat. Here, on the cushion, lay a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England, or other such substantial literature; even as, in our own days, we scatter gilded volumes on the centre-table, to be turned over by the casual guest.

Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

a golden liquid, worth more than liquid gold;

there is no one thing which men so rarely do, whatever the provocation or inducement, as to bequeath patrimonial property away from their own blood.

Brown made a claim that possibly hit a little too close to home. 'Money is this man's god,' the handbill read, 'and to get enough of it, he would sacrifice his country.

Over the next hundred years, more gold would be extracted from a single mine in the Black Hills (an estimated $1 billion) than from any other mine in the continental United States.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.