Quotes About Wealth

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the where-withal: call it what you like, money matters. To Christians, the love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it is the sinews of war; to revolutionaries, the shackles of labour. But what exactly is money? Is it a mountain of silver, as the Spanish conquistadors thought? Or will mere clay tablets and printed paper suffice? How did we

As early as 1975 she had come up with a wonderful line about the Labour Party: "They've got the usual Socialist disease — they've run out of other people's money.

Niall Ferguson

Credit was, quite simply, the total of banks' assets (loans).

paradoxically, the people who live in the world's safest country are also the world's most insured.

In the earning of things you have lost the ability to enjoy them.

above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides

Above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

Os homens se esquecem com maior rapidez da morte de um pai que da perda de um patrimônio.

Hükümdar ne olursa olsun asla insanlar?n mal?na göz dikmemelidir. Çünkü insanlar babalar?n?n ölümünü kolayl?kla içlerine sindirebilirler, ama mal varl?klar?ndan yoksun kalmalar?n? asla.

for even whilst you exercise it you lose the power to do so, and so become either poor or despised, or else, in avoiding poverty, rapacious and hated.

because the haves of this world cannot quietly inherit what is coming to them; lest they be treated now as they once treated others, they must keep an eye on the have-nots. To keep a step ahead of the have-nots the haves must think and behave like have-nots. They certainly cannot afford justice to the have-nots, nor can they waste time or money on sympathy.

El príncipe que, con sus ejércitos, va a efectuar saqueos y a llenarse de botín, y a apoderarse de los caudales de los vencidos, está obligado a ser pródigo con sus soldados, que no le seguirían sin ese estímulo.

los hombres olvidan más pronto la muerte de su padre que la pérdida de su patrimonio.

My studies in criminology have suggested to me that only generals, Harley Street specialists and mine owners can get away with murder successfully.

Then there is Plato on human happiness: "The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money.

If you're going to be a movie star, you should live like one.

I don't have ambitions to be a movie star or multi-millionaire.

Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!

There are more movie stars in the lobby of the Aquadulce than there are in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

I was a paperboy first, then I worked at a movie theater. But I was a caddie at a golf club, which I didn't like. The people were so bougie and racist at times.

There was a time when I was making a lot of money and moving very fast. I didn't like who I was. I could tell by the company I was keeping.