Quotes About Riches

Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.

Because it's not how much money you make that matters, it's how much money you keep.

Love, sorrow, and wealth are the three things that cannot be concealed.

Are you very much attached to money?' asked Stephen. 'I love it passionately,' said Jack, with truth ringing clear in his voice. 'I have always been poor, and I long to be rich.

I wonder, James, whether it is not too easy for a rich man to despise money

Cold War teaches the same lesson as World War II and, for that matter, most wars in recent history. Don't let a ruling class of warriors and politicians squash the entrepreneurs. The same recipe that makes individuals rich makes countries powerful. Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.

If I had a choice of living in a society where I was materially much better off than I am now, but was among the poorest, or in one where I was the richest, but much worse off than I am now, I'd take the first option. If I had children, it would arguably be immoral not to. It's absolute poverty you want to avoid, not relative poverty.

Wealth is what you want, not money.

The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

English exports, led by cotton textiles, doubled between 1780 and 1800. It was the growth in this sector that pulled ahead the whole economy. The combination of technological and organizational innovation provides the model for economic progress that transformed the economies of the world that became rich.

Countries such as Great Britain and the United States became rich because their citizens overthrew the elites who controlled power and created a society where political rights were much more broadly distributed, where the government was accountable and responsive to citizens, and where the great mass of people could take advantage of economic opportunities.

La combinación de innovación tecnológica y organizativa proporciona el modelo para el progreso económico que transformó las economías mundiales que llegarían a ser ricas.

What do you do with all your money? Me and the French hoard gold.

lo que determina su riqueza no es cuánto dinero gana sino cuánto dinero guarda de lo que gana.

When I saw what was in there I felt like I had happened upon a treasure trove. Books! I pulled a goodly number of them out

Twenty years ago there were fewer than five hundred billionaires in the world. Now there were nearly three thousand. That was an enormous amount of wealth creation. For a very select few.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.

They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up half of my wealth.