Quotes About Wealth

By the time I've spent $1 million on tickets, I'm going to end up with something strikingly close to $560,000.

The law of large numbers suggests that an investment firm, or a rich individual like Warren Buffet, should seek out hundreds of opportunities like this with uncertain outcomes but attractive expected returns. Some will work; many won't. On average, these investors will make a lot of money, just like an insurance company or a casino.

L. Mencken once noted that a wealthy man is a man who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband. Some economists have belatedly begun to believe that he was on to something.

As the Economist points out, "If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.

Politician B (more of an elitist): "Our economy is showing appreciable gains: Seventy percent of Americans had rising incomes last year.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

The saying that money doesn't buy you happiness is true. But it sure as fuck helps.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.

Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with eight children. It was like having a river and yet washing one's hands with spittle.

Today we have a system where only those individuals with the means of capital and who can both pay the exorbitant application fee and fund a political campaign can vie for the presidency. It would not surprise any close observer to discover that in this inane system, the same unsavory characters who have destroyed the country and looted the treasury and the nation blind are the ones able to run for the presidency!

he that has health and children will also have wealth

new Porsche, some cash, and no doubt a condo by the sea had been her payment. 

Nuestra creciente riqueza nos ha permitido dejar de ser cazadores de gangas que adquieren productos de marca (o incluso sin marca), para convertirnos en miniexpertos y permitirnos miles de pequeños caprichos que nos distinguen de los demás. Adoptamos una serie de nuevas conductas de compra que se describen con palabras de significado opuesto, como «personalización en serie», «exclusividad masiva». Todas van en la misma dirección: más largas colas.

The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses—to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.

In Fritz Lang's Metropolis, society is divided into two groups: one of planners and thinkers living in luxury high above the Earth, and another of workers, dwelling and toiling underground to run the machine that sustains the wealthy. The film is about the workers' revolt, but the broader point is clear. Abundance comes at a cost: scarcity elsewhere.

10. Manage for abundance, not scarcity.

Yet abundance is the driving force in all economic growth and change.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it

it has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors.

Money has replaced the vote.

is death I defy, not my own death, but the vast enterprise of death. The dark, primeval lusts for power and personal wealth, the hypermasculine language of war and patriotism, used to justify the slaughter of the weak and the innocent and to mock justice. I do

Wealth is no longer created by producing or manufacturing products. It is created by manipulating the prices of currencies, stocks, and commodities and imposing a crippling debt peonage on the public.