Quotes About Wealth

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

The winning investor's objective should be to have one or two big winners rather than dozens of very small profits" (How to Make Money in Stocks, 4th ed. [New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009], 274).

When it comes to people's safety, money wins out every time

Whitey's on the moon

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

In the Banda Islands, ten pounds of nutmeg cost less than one English penny. In London, that same spice sold for more than £2.10s. – a mark-up of a staggering 60,000 per cent. A small sackful was enough to set a man up for life, buying him a gabled dwelling in Holborn and a servant to attend to his needs

There are now skin products supposedly created with 24-karat gold extract. I guess if financial times got really tough, you could always pawn your own head.

Eh, my dear fellow, order is wealth

L'uomo che possiede una cosa poi ne vorrà due e poi tre e poi tutte le cose che ci sono sulla terra. E avrà in cambio solo la sua condanna, perché nessuno può possedere tutto il mondo.

richer, by far in coin than in wit

Tedaldo adunque, tornato ricchissimo, perseverò nel suo amare, e, senza piú turbarsi la donna, discretamente operando, lungamente goderon del loro amore. Dio faccia noigoder del nostro.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Los ignorantes tienen necesidad de ilusionarse, los obreros tienen necesidad de trabajar y los industriales de ganar dinero.

El secreto para enriquecerse es pagar como si se fuese pródigo y vender como si se estuviese en vísperas de quiebra.

Solamente los pequeños industriales atrasados se proponen como fin el ganar dinero.