Quotes About Wealth

Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.

And I suppose you know who Magnus' father is?" Luke said. "I paid a lot of money once to find it out," Raphael said.

entertaining friends, and using your money to spread largesse, sometimes even in a way that wouldn't touch your emotions.

Our family's fate seems to have hung on money for the last two generations, on money that we have never earned. We have lived in debt for so long: we have

lots of money and the power it gives them. With others it's a person. I think that's the worst kind when it's applied to a human being.

People who are wealthy are assumed to have it all, and so are often misread or misjudged. A magazine journalist once described Madeline as "haughty" because she didn't smile or make eye contact. If she'd been poor, she might have been described as "shy.

The way to become really wealthy is to start at the top and not at the bottom. Be an entrepreneur and not an employee.

Human dignity is something one need not look for in the world of capitalists. V. I. Lenin

I am receiving. I am receiving now. I am receiving all the wealth that the universe has,for me now.

GOD WORKS IN ME TO WILL AND TO DO WHATSOEVER HE WISHES ME TO DO. GOD CANNOT FAIL, THEREFORE I CANNOT FAIL." She began to trust in God for daily guidance, health and supply. She blessed her mind, body and financial affairs. She praised and gave thanks for her life: "I PRAISE MY WORLD AS THE PERFECT CREATION OF DIVINE SUBSTANCE. I NOW SEE MORE HEALTH, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS IN MY WORLD THAN I HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE.

limitation to abundance.

abundance and happiness,

as is pointed out in the first chapter of Genesis. Deliberately cultivate the habit of appreciating money, and make no excuses about your appreciation.

You are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health and plenty in your world.

On the way up the walk I took in the weedless border gardens, the two floors of smudgeless windows, and I wondered, when a person does all this, do they have time left over for other things?

Because my father had the equivalent of a few thousand dollars, and their fathers had nothing. Money, my friend. Money bought us our lives. And that is called privilege. We bought our lives, while those who couldn't afford to were slaughtered like animals.

Debt is a terrible, terrible thing. Somehow they've got us all primed to accept it. They've taught us it's part of the American dream or some such nonsense. But it keeps you in chains. The deeper in you get, the more money they make off your misfortune, and the deeper in you get.

It's amazing how much time it takes to gather money, and how little time it takes for life to intervene.

We plunge ourselves into enormous debt and then take two and three jobs to stay afloat. We uproot our families with unnecessary moves just so we can have a more prestigious house. We grasp and grab and never have enough. And most destructive of all, our flashy cars and sports spectaculars and backyard pools have a way of crowding out much interest in civil rights or inner city poverty or the starved masses of India. Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion. Richard J. Foster, 1981

All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.

The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.