Quotes About Wealth

As for the name of the theory behind selling enough stock to become millionaires, Richman told me, "I don't know how you put it in the vernacular. We called it the Fuck You Theory.

But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things he does not create, who collects power and wealth out of proportion to his discrimination, and who is responsible for all that is kitsch, for all that is change without progress, for all that is consumption without use.

Prudence is a bourgeois virtue, because the rich have something worth saving. The poor splurge because they need desperately to make a colorful splash across the drab fabric of their lives. The hungry don't dream of brown rice and vegetables; they dream of cake.

Biz çok iyi biliriz ki, hayat?ndan memnun görünenler beÅŸ paras?zd?r veya hak ettikleri gibi günahlar?n?n cezas?n? ödüyorlard?r. DiÄŸer taraftan, en ac?kl? ÅŸekilde yoksulluktan yak?nanlar?n da gizliden gizliye servet sahibi kiÅŸiler olduÄŸunu gayet iyi biliriz.

The private security industry feeds on itself, creating the conditions for its own growth. As unemployment rises, there's more work to be done protecting the increasingly conglomerated wealth. As guns in private hands proliferate, things happen. Blame it on gangs, and there's an argument for even more private security.

The breakfast-service on the table was equally costly and equally plain; the apparent object had been to spend money without obtaining brilliancy or splendour.

It had surprised and impressed Tessia to learn that Everran and Avaria owned two wagons, one for their own everyday use and one kept for visits to the Royal Palace. Since the journey to the palace consisted of half the length of two streets, it seemed frivolous to own a vehicle especially for it.

I'd rather be honest with myself when it comes to business. I wanted to be better off than most dwells. Don't want to die a beggar. I'm not pretending I got higher purposes than that." - Cery

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

If you have an unusual ability to spot, recruit, and direct those who work well with computers, even if you don't work well with computers yourself, the contemporary world will make you rich.

When I look back at the last decade, I think the following: There are some very wealthy people, but a lot of their incomes are from financial innovations that do not translate to gains for the average American citizen.

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue the real thing.

Les personnes de peu d'idées sont moins sujettes à l'erreur, elles suivent ce que tout le monde fait et ne dérangent personne, et elles réussissent, s'enrichissent, arrivent à de bonnes positions...

Le nouveau royaume de Jérusalem est un peu la Californie de l'époque, on peut y faire fortune.

Monasterium sine libris est sicut civitas sine opibus, castrum sine numeris, coquina sine suppellectili, mensa sine cibis, hortus sine herbis, pratum sine floribus, arbor sine foliis

Musa'ya inanan sevgili kardeslerim, Fransa krali sizi Hiristiyan oomaya zorluyorsa Hristiyan olun, baska turlu yapamazsiniz cunku, ama Musa'nin yasalarini yureklerinizde saklayin: Malinizi mulkunuzu elinizden aliyorlarsa, ogullarinizi tuccar olarak yetistirin ki, yavas yavas onlar da Hristiyanlarin mallarini mulklerini ellerinden alsinlar.

And 'poor' does not so much mean owning a palace or not; it means, rather, keeping or renouncing the right to legislate on earthly matters.

Pero lo que importa no es si Cristo fue o no pobre, sino si la Iglesia debe o no ser pobre. Y la pobreza no se refiere tanto a la posesión o no de un palacio, como a la conservación o a la pérdida del derecho de legislar sobre las cosas terrenales.

for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

He had been a reform member of the city council, he had been a Greenbacker, a Labor Unionist, a Populist, a Bryanite—and after thirty years of fighting, the year 1896 had served to convince him that the power of concentrated wealth could never be controlled, but could only be destroyed. He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him. Now

jealousies and hatreds; there was no loyalty or decency anywhere about it, there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar. And worse than there being no decency, there was not even any honesty. The reason for that? Who could say? It must have been old Durham in the beginning; it was a heritage which the self-made merchant had left to his son, along with his millions.

All that a rich man needed to be happy was to have no heart. If he had one, then all the gifts which fortune showered upon him might turn to dust and ashes in his hands.

What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich?