Quotes About Wealth

Your slavery is their liberty, your poverty is their prosperity...Peace is their ruin,...by war they are enriched...Peace is their war, peace is their poverty.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of "mansions" as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

The deficit, then, is not the difference between what America spends and what America earns; it is, to a striking extent, the difference between what the rich owe and what the rich pay.

Capitalism. Downfall.

I always say that I only wish to have three sorts of people as my friends, those who are very rich, those who are very witty, and those who are very beautiful.

I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous.

Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.

Infinite riches in a little room

On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.

You love your wars for the coffers, but for the warrior and the widow, the orphan and the owned, you've not two dry fucks to give.

pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;

Nicht, dass ich es dir verdenken könnte. Ich bin ausgesprochen koitabel – im Grunde das große Los. Eine Weile war ich sogar König.« »Wenn Worte Reichtum wären«, seufzte der Mohr. »Du wärst ein König unter Königen, aber im Moment bist du nur klein, nass und laut.«

My only inheritance.

Someday, he said, when I'm old and rich, I'll have my own spaceship. Just you wait.

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

He had a nice house in the Norma Triangle section of West Hollywood and an ass that could stop a war.

he murmured something about how much could be done in Haiti if only he could get his hands on the money that the first world spent on pet grooming.

I think that the rich can always call themselves democratic, but the sick people are not among the rich." I thought he was done, but he was only pausing for the interpreter to catch up. "Look, I'm very proud to be an American. I have many opportunities because I'm American. I can travel freely throughout the world, I can start projects, but that's called privilege, not democracy.

god gives but does not share --haitian proverb

Money is a fictional thing that is supposed to go around. Hoarding it is a sin

There are more billionaires today than ever before," Jim declared. "We are talking about wealth that we've never seen before. And the only time that I hear talk of shrinking resources among people like us, among academics, is when we talk about things that have to do with poor people.

Contractors get wealthy in part by subcontracting out large pieces of a job, hiring unskilled labor for one aspect of it and semiskilled labor for another