Quotes About Wealth

Prosperity lets go the bridle.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

As soon as we become aware of money, we develop beliefs about it-- beliefs we cling to, sometimes for the rest of our lives, often at the cost of our souls.

Every money message we hold on to contains a fatal flaw; it impressions us in an incomplete world.

one can be both free and economically secure while leading a totally meaningless and empty existence.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. Every businessman has used the vast American infrastructure, which the taxpayers paid for, to make his money.

If you ask him for a shilling, or two or three shillings, he'll give freely freely, but if he know that he got to spend a few hundred dollars, which is no more than three shillings compare to what he got, boys, he will cry buckets of tears.

Tis only right he say that every man should own his own piece o' land at some time or other. 'Tis the ambition of every man to do that same said thing, an' he say it ain't only poor, simple people like you an' me, but 'tis the way the big folks think too.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

And that year Australians officially became the richest people in the world, overtaking the British and the Dutch on the measure of GDP per person.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

The country that always modeled social mobility for the rest of the world has become more class-ridden than recent aristocracies like Austria and Japan.

There are two extremes to be avoided, one is the disposition of the rich to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the poor. . . . The other is . . . the anxiety of poor people to get possessions of the accumulations of the rich, and to have them divided among them, and a general leveling take place.

Lord Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

Innocent or guilty, a Lannister pays his debts.

Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

Cuando la gente se muere de hambre, no ve con buenos ojos a los sacerdotes que están tan gordos que no pueden caminar.

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.