Quotes About Riches

When a young man was boasting in the theater and saying, I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men; Epictetus said, I also have conversed with many rich men, but I am not rich.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men, Epictetus replied, I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!

It is better to die poor, while free from fear and grief, than to live surrounded by riches and filled with anxiety.

But I'll get money, and then share it." If you can acquire riches without losing your honor and self-respect, then do it. But if you lose what is dearest to you, no amount of money can make up for it.

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

Do not set your heart on wealth…Do not strain to seek increase,What you have, let it suffice you.If riches come to you by theft,They will not stay the night with you….They made themselves wings like geese,And flew away to the sky.

Ce qui a eu pour effet d'accentuer fortement les inégalités sociales, au point de créer une petite caste d'hypermilliardaires, chacun d'eux plus riche que des nations entières.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

As figure 5.1 shows, in the past the United States was not more economically stratified than other countries, but the last thirty years have seen exceptional growth in the incomes of the richest Americans.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

I think for some, the very wealthiest among us, for corporations, taxes are too low.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.