Quotes About Wealth

Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes...

Only the poor knew the meaning of life; the rich and the safe had to guess.

I had come to the racetrack after the other two funerals and had won. There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.

What's the sin in being poor?

Once you have been poor a long time you gain a certain respect for money.

Un bel quartiere. Definizione di un bel quartiere: un posto in cui non puoi permetterti di abitare.

SIR! SIR! SIR! FORGET THAT 'SIR' STUFF, WILL YOU? I'll bet if that were the president or governor or mayor or some rich son of a bitch, there would be doctors all over that room doing something! Why do you just let them die? What's the sin in being poor?

The streets were full of insane and dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What

Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.

I had this place in back, even had my own garden, planted all kinds of tulips, which grew, beautifully and amazingly. I had the green hand. I had the green money. what system I had devised I can no longer remember, but it was working and I wasn't and that's a pleasant enough way to live.

si un hombre no puede permitirse unos cuantos lujos es que no va a durar mucho tiempo.

They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor people left over to experiment upon.

Loš ukus stvara mnogo više milionera od dobrog ukusa. Na kraju, sve se svodi na to ko je pokupio više glasova. U zemlji slepaca ?ora je kralj.

Vrata su se otvorila. Bio je to muškarac, oko ?etiri i pol decenija, polubogat, polunervozan, s nogama prevelikog broja, prištem na ?elu gore lijevo, sme?im o?ima, kravatom. 2 automobila, 2 ku?e, bez djece. Bazen i sauna, igra na burzi i samo je umjereno glup.

I had come to the racetrack after the other two funerals and had won. There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.

Tanr?m, tanr?m, çok tuhaf bir dünyada ya??yoruz, dedi. her ÅŸeyimiz var ama hiçbir ÅŸeyimiz yok.

Mulloch sefil yaÅŸant?ya bay?l?rd?, yoksulluÄŸa da bay?l?yordu bence. YoksulluÄŸun insan? erdemli k?ld???na inan?yordu. Mektuplar? böyle bir izlenim b?rakm??t? bende. Zenginlerin inanmam?z? istedikleri ÅŸey bu tabii ki, ama bu baÅŸka bir konu.

Give a man four walls long enough and it is possible for him to own the world.

You can't blame them for being rich," Jimmy said. "No, I blame their fucking parents." "And their grandparents," said Jimmy. "Yes, I'd be happy to take their new cars and their pretty girlfriends and I wouldn't give a fuck about anything like social justice." "Yeah," said Jimmy. "I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

but, baby, I love your money! you never once said you loved me! what do you want a liar or a lover?

That's what he told me. He said that in America you have to spend your money or they'll take it away. Now they can't take mine away: I don't have any.

To the question of how to survive, his work said: be smart, make more, share with everyone else. It said: we can build a world of gleaming richness for all. And the concomitants of this world—the giant installations, the whirring machinery in the garden, the glare of artificial light in the night sky—are to be embraced, not feared.

Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich'aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background. But