Quotes About Riches

Fiz uma descoberta muito importante no Acampamento Currie: a felicidade consiste em dormir o suficiente. Só isso, mais nada. Todas as pessoas ricas e infelizes que você já conheceu tomam remédio pra dormir; soldados da Infantaria Móvel não precisam disso. Dê um beliche a um soldado e tempo pra se enfiar nele, e ele vai ficar tão feliz quanto um bichinho dentro de uma maçã... dormindo.

Electrons don't care. Once data of any sort go into the net, time is frozen. All that is necessary is to remember that all the endless riches of the past are available any time you punch for them.

For myself, I long since came to the firm conclusion that a man can do more productive work, and make more money if that is his object, by sitting down with his hands in his pockets than by any form of physical activity. Do you happen to know the average yearly income of a meteor miner? Well, no, but— Less than six hundred a year. But some of them get rich!

Oh, as the tragedies of Shakespeare have revealed, the fall of kings is but fodder for the riches entertainments.

Dan jika kau miskin, penderitaan menjadi mata uangmu.

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)

But at this point the four hundred richest people on the planet owned half the planet's wealth, and the top one percent owned fully eighty percent of the world's wealth. For them it wasn't so bad.

The three richest people in the world possess more financial assets than all the people in the forty-eight poorest countries added together. The wealthiest one percent of the human population owns more than the bottom seventy percent. And

I was telling my wife a story about a rich man who was curious, too. He shot himself just to find out what comes after death. Ha, ha, ha! That's the height of curiosity, isn't it? Shooting yourself to find out what comes after death!

I've got a fortune in gold. Ah, was that a flicker in your eye? Do you like me better now that you know I'm rich?" He curled his finger under her chin. "Because I'm all right with that.

Not even going to discuss this. I'm going to stay in my gold house and sleep on my gold bed and ski down my piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck.

You are both rich, my friends, said Ozma, gently; and your riches are the only riches worth having—the riches of content!

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

People who don't respect money don't have any.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

The worst fear that I have about this people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and his people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell. This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty and all manner of persecution, and be true. My greater fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth; and yet they have to be tried with riches, for they will become the richest people on this earth.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Ask those who know, what's this soul within the flesh? Reality's own power. What blood fills these veins? Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. These sighs are love's clothing. Who is the Khan on the throne? Give thanks for His unity. He created when nothing existed. And since we are actually nothing, what are all of Solomon's riches? Ask Yunus and Taptuk what the world means to them. The world won't last. What are You? What am I?

As Jesus said, 'It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God' (Matthew 19:24).

As of early 2016, the sixty-two richest people in the world were worth as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people! Since the world's population is about 7.2 billion, it means that these sixty-two billionaires together hold as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humankind.37 The