Quotes About Wealth

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

Net wealth is a great way to measure riches, but not such a good way to measure poverty. Lots of people have zero, or less than zero. Some of them are destitute; others, like the junior doctor, are going to be fine.

More abundance can lead to more competition. If ordinary people live at subsistence levels, powerful people can't really take much away from them—not if they want to come back and take more the next time there's a harvest. But the more ordinary people are able to produce, the more powerful people can confiscate.

Agricultural abundance creates rulers and ruled, masters and servants, and inequality of wealth unheard of in hunter-gatherer societies. It enables the rise of kings and soldiers, bureaucrats and priests—to organize wisely, or live idly off the work of others.

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In the fourteenth century, Arabs like IB had headed for the Sultanate of Delhi, drawn by its immense wealth. In the twentieth, however, the demographic tide had turned: the Gulf is now as much Indian as Arab.

Eu sou um capitalista bem-sucedido, mas estou cansado de ouvir que pessoas como eu criam empregos. Há apenas uma coisa que cria empregos, e são os clientes. E temos estado a tramar os trabalhadores há tanto tempo que eles não se podem dar ao luxo de ser nossos clientes. - Nick Hanauer

The long gray two-story box was the newest structure on the property, having been built in the 1970s. The buildings up the hill had accumulated one by one since the 1920s, most of them incorporating bits salvaged from various torn-down hotels and movie sets. Their aunt Amity, affluent from the sales of her series of popular novels, had added to the architectural clutter after

Power is the capacity to turn people into money.

That's the problem with men with money. They think they can do anything they want and get away with it.

Rich got a plan for living. Poor got a plan for dying.

It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn't come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but always implied to be suspect.

appears that they want what the Russians have, the new oil and gold discoveries.

Prosperity was the handmaiden of peace, and the assassin of discontent.

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It's easier to robe the poor.

You don't get ads on the Underground saying: "Tired? Then Sleep More," as no one has figured out how to make money this way.

the fat cats used to send us into the mills to make their millions, and now they send us to the shopping centres.

Better to have lots of time than lots of money in those early years. There will be time later for earning.

Pile up that gold around my head. I must take it with me to pay the ferryman.' 'I thought it was just a coin on the eyes or something.' 'Inflation. Also, I'll take up rather a lot of room on the boat.

Not, of course, as much as Julia Roberts or David Beckham or Robbie Williams, but he found he wasn't really bothered about that. He was, after all, basically a simple, modest person at heart. Doing a short but honest day's work, doing it well and earning a revoltingly large amount of money would suit him very nicely.

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When they weren't running meat—or rum—they worked as salt miners or piloted small boats along the coast. These highland Saint-Dominguans, along with more recent white immigrants, also from the middle and lower classes, were worlds removed from the sugar kings, businessmen

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o' rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o' poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.