Quotes About Affluence

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

Money often costs too much

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

Wealth follows influence.

Luck of money is never poverty.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention.

Wealth maketh many friends.

Money like a queen gives rank and beauty .

The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes.

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace.

Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

If, despite not having pursued wealth, we find ourselves wealthy, we should enjoy our affluence; it was the Cynics, not the Stoics, who advocated asceticism. But although we should enjoy wealth, we should not cling to it; indeed, even as we enjoy it, we should contemplate its loss. •

The life of faith does not follow automatically when a person becomes a Christian. It requires deliberate action on his part. This is especially true in affluent society. The believer must put himself in a position where he is compelled to trust God...It is only as he gets rid of his reserves and other false supports that he can truly launch out into the deep.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title.

J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, venality and, to use one of his own favourite words, phoniness. What particularly appals Holden is the eagerness of his peers to adopt that corrupt grownup behaviour.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.