Quotes About Wealth

I made about five million dollars last year and I'm not giving a red cent to that elitist, little fuck Calvin Johnson. No way!

Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one? (Three Penny Opera)

Yes, I am a fat man, but don't sorry for me. In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge. People call you "boss" before they even know who you are. "Big man," "Boss," "Officer," "King," and my favorite, "My Lord." When a woman call you, "My Lord," that is a sweetness.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

Earth has been controlled by the man who owns the planet's fuel—Delbert John Rockecenter. His power is such that he can determine the political future of a country simply by making a telephone call to one of his minions.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches.

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

Whatever difference may appear in men's fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and ill that makes all equal.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

There was a long silence, during which Father Marco's thoughts finally drifted from the matter of wealth to the matter of God—few minds can entertain both subjects at once.