Quotes About Wealth

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

The man is really looking for self-esteem, and he seeks to find it by winning the esteem of others. In our society, the fastest and surest way to do this is by amassing a great deal of money. So the money becomes a substitute, a symbol, for the esteem.

The length of sentences depends upon the criminal's wealth and type of legal help more than upon the seriousness of his transgression. Court procedures are slow and cumbersome. It is the poor and stupid criminal who gets the heaviest sentences - so the aim of criminals is to become rich and cunning, and thus avoid the harshest penalties.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts.

Few of us will ever be famous, I can tell you none of us will be rich. But we will have more important riches –the joy of making the beautiful music.

Power and money in evil hands have caused all the miseries of the world so far. Both have devastated poorer countries in particular. There must be checks in the exercise of political and military power, and a ceiling on wealth (of all varieties). Governance in a situation of unequal hold on power and wealth is a sham. The pundits who write and lecture so much on governance should do well to learn this basic concept.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.

Money is a lubricant. It lets you ìslideî through life instead of having to ìscrapeî by. Money brings freedomófreedom to buy what you want , and freedom to do what you want with your time. Money allows you to enjoy the finer things in life as well as giving you the opportunity to help others have the necessities in life. Most of all, having money allows you not to have to spend your energy worrying about not having money.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.

There is no such thing as a really rich victim.

You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you cant be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.

Money will only make you more of what you already are.

Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst! ... For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all.

How do rich people think and act?

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor we would know much of the economics that really matters.

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Real wealth is affirmation, affection, humanity, and brotherhood.

Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt.

If he had been able to sell all his assets at full market value at the moment of his death, in January of that year, he would have taken one out of every twenty dollars in circulation, including cash and demand deposits.2