Quotes About Riches

There are many kinds of loneliness, but Momo experienced one that only very few people know of, and that even fewer have experienced to the extent that Momo did. She felt like she was imprisoned in a treasure trove filled with priceless riches that continued to grow in number, threatening to suffocate her.

The more money one has, the less he values each additional increment, or, equivalently, that the utility of any additional dollar diminishes with an increase in capital.

The change in the kind of person who got rich enough to buy a professional sports franchise also had helped. "The owners often made their money from disrupting fields where most of the conventional wisdom is bullshit," said Morey. These people tended to be keenly aware of the value of even slight informational advantages, and open to the idea of using data to gain those advantages.

Kimse zenginler kadar kötü olamaz.

People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'

Money is good, love is wealth.

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

He who laughs and loves is always rich; he who sulks and hates is always poor!

His life was a mystery to her, fabulously rich when he chose to embellish it, but otherwise a blank.

So Whitney's gin not only helped make many people rich on both sides of the Atlantic but also reinvigorated slavery, turned child labor into a necessity, and paved the way for the American Civil War. Perhaps at no other time in history has someone with a simple, well-meaning invention generated more general prosperity, personal disappointment, and inadvertent suffering than Eli Whitney with his gin.

So Whitney's gin not only helped make many people rich on both sides of the Atlantic but also reinvigorated slavery, turned child labor into a necessity, and paved the way for the American Civil War. Perhaps at no other time in history has someone with a simple, well-meaning invention generated more general prosperity, personal disappointment, and inadvertent suffering than Eli Whitney with his gin. That is quite a lot of consequence for a simple rotating drum.

You can be full of desire to be rich and work your butt off to make it happen, but you still may be operating from bad conditioning or an ill-functioning little voice that says, for example …

It boils down to this: If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable. WEALTH

Yes, in my experience, you do have to work hard for your money. For rich people, however, this is a temporary situation.

Por eso, si entraras en contacto con cantidades de dinero importantes sin estar mentalmente preparado para ello, lo más probable es que la riqueza te durase poco y que finalmente terminaras perdiéndola.

poor people never take action and therefore always lose. Rich people see an opportunity, jump on it, and get even richer. As for poor people? They're still "preparing"!

si quieres hacerte rico, céntrate en ganar, en conservar y en invertir tu dinero. Si quieres ser pobre, céntrate en gastarte el dinero.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

We certainly did. We just wanted to survive. That's all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn't matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you could ever ask for. So, don't let the size of that ring sway you. Think about what kind of a man he is. Is he decent and honorable? Would he die for you or help another person before he helped himself?

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

By contrast, whatever happened to Maryam today wouldn't matter very much. She'd still inherit a business and a place in society. The rich lived in a different universe.

Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34] If your mind is not at peace what use are riches?

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.