Quotes About Wealth

has a less than 1-in-20 shot at making it to the top. The idea that so many children are born into poverty in the wealthiest nation on Earth is heartbreaking enough. But the idea that a child may never be able to escape that poverty because she lacks a decent education or health care, or a community that views her future as their own, that should offend all of us and it should compel us to

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

From Gold gold bars and gold ingots bare their teeth the skulls keep silent the sockets speak

He who dies with the most toys wins.

It's not about you. It's not about me. This life that we live, the reason we're here. It's only when we see our lives through eternal eyes that we find true peace or wealth that will last. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you . . . in a relationship with God.

The money from selling a dog doesn't bark

Justice became a commodity that only the rich could afford.

The American Dream was just then beginning to be defined by wealth at the expense of exploitable natural resources

You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are.

The economic boom has given us too many people with helicopters and too many crushed into cockroachy flats from hell, way too many loathing their lives in fluorescent cubicles, enduring for the weekend and then starting all over again, and we're fracturing under the weight of it.

Ask any economist: broke is made of how you feel. The credit crunch didn't happen because people woke up any poorer than they'd been the day before; it happened because people woke up scared.

If you're not rich, you're a lesser being who shouldn't have the gall to expect a living wage from the decent people who are.

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

Kakva korist od bogatstva i sjaja ako u sebi osje?aš bijedu i sirotinju?

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

Their grandchildren will grow up so middle-class and affluent that the idea of deprivation will have no place in their lives, will seem to belong not to their country, but a much poorer neighbour like Cambodia or Bangladesh.

If you are rich, it doesn't matter whether you are Hindu or Muslim, that is how a capitalist society works. Take a look, poverty-stricken Muslims are in a similar situation. The rich, be they Hindu or Muslim, are subjugating the poor.

Capitalism is based on the concept that in order for someone to succeed, someone else has to suffer.

Ronalda looked at me as though she couldn't imagine an unspecial mother-daughter outing. It was like I had told her that I had money, but not the kind you could spend.

Five thousand dollars for a baby doll?" Olive fanned herself with the magazine, lifting her peach-preserve hair. "I guess that's why God invented white folks.

money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.

Profits. Joe, if you want to use just one word"—and Mr. Healey wagged a huge finger at Joseph—"to describe wars and the making of wars, it's profits. Nothing else. Profits.

Pero es que los ricos aunque estén muy enamorados, son muy prudentes en lo relativo a sus riquezas.

You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love