Quotes About Riches

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

I'm the color of gold and as sweet as can be. But beware of the danger that's all around me. What am I?

Books were more valuable to him than gold.

had been just over a year since Khodorkovsky's arrest, and it was now clear Russia had passed two milestones. With the country's former richest man behind bars indefinitely, no one, not even the rich and powerful, could afford free agency.

Getting richer is not the only or even the best way of getting happier. Social and political liberation is far more effective, says the political scientist Ronald Ingleheart: the big gains in happiness come from living in a society that frees you to make choices about your lifestyle – about where to live, who to marry, how to express your sexuality and so on.

Toda emoción es respuesta a un hecho real, un cómputo dictado por vuestras propias normas. Amar es evaluar. Quien os diga que es posible evaluar sin valores, considerar digno de amor a un ser indigno, os dirá también que es posible hacerse rico consumiendo sin producir, y que el papel moneda es tan valioso como el oro.

Aborrecía los afectos sin causa, tal como aborrecía la riqueza inmerecida.

Razieh had an amazing capacity for beauty. She said, You know, all my life I have lived in poverty. I had to steal books and sneak into movie houses-but, God, I loved those books! I don't think any rich kid has ever cherished Rebecca or Gone with the Wind the way I did when I borrowed the translations from houses where my mother worked.

Si hablamos en términos globales, el mayor obstáculo para la felicidad es la pobreza. Las encuestas sobre felicidad, hasta donde podemos confiar en ellas, muestran siempre que los países más felices del mundo suelen ser los más ricos. Estados Unidos está en el puesto 23 y el Reino Unido en el 41, por ejemplo; mientras que la India aparece en el nada halagüeño puesto 125 (de 178 países).

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol!

Oh, and the camel. Was it a camel that could pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man? Or a coarse piece of yarn? The Hebrew words are the same, but which one did they mean? If it's a camel, the rich man might as well not even try. But if it's the yarn, he might well succeed with a lot of effort, you see?

But don't you want lots of money? Beene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don't, but we wear it all the same.

rich." She stood up and fluffed herself. "My family has more money than you can shake a stick at." Mr. Scary stared at her a real long time. "Yes, well, fortunately, we don't need to be rich to shop at the gift shop, Lucille," he said at last. "Everything there is very affordable. Does everyone know what affordable means?" "I do! I do!

As the magnitude of the gain increases, the amount of additional satisfaction people get out of each additional unit decreases. The shape of this curve conforms to what economists have long talked about as the "law of diminishing marginal utility." As the rich get richer, each additional unit of wealth satisfies them less.

LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.