Quotes About Wealth

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

Democracy is a luxury enjoyed by simple low-population societies, though wealth can maintain it for longer than its natural span. However, societies grow in population and complexity, the technological apparatus of control improves, individual freedoms impinge upon others until they demand "action" from government that is generally eager to comply and accrue more power to itself, and democracy gradually sickens and dies.

Why did anyone make a deal with the devil? Desperation, pursuit of power and wealth … Or perhaps a mistaken confidence in one's ability to avoid pitfalls, to take something worthwhile from that deal and not be, as some would have it, "royally screwed.

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.' Let it wrap its antennae round that one, Janer thought. But the mind was quick with a reply. 'You cannot stop, then?' said the mind. 'No,' said Janer. 'Except to die.

If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.

Can't you see? I don't get to do ANYTHING I want! Because I'm too busy just trying to stay alive. And you come here with your fancy school uniform and your mother's jewelry and your neighbor's freaking car, and you think you can buy your way in? What kind of idiot buys his way into the bottom?

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Ce n'est que par les beaux sentiments qu'on parvient à la fortune.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.

But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality.

Living was easy - all you had to do was let go. And have a little money. Let the other men fight the wars, let the other men go to jail.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. It finally boiled down to a matter of who got the most votes. In the land of the moles a mole was king

I had a cigar in my mouth and whiskey on my breath. I felt like money. I looked like money.

Instead I learned that the poor usually stay poor. That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing.

The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

We were in rich territory. I had forgotten that some people lived quite well while most others ate their own shit for breakfast.