Quotes About Riches

Of course everybody wants to be filthy stinking rich. But we've seen the effect that having that kind of massive success has had on other people musically. I really think that our music has gotten stronger because of a slight level of fear you get when you don't have that kind of success.

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

The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that.

You can have earthly riches, but you can still be poor spiritually.

We try so hard to be important, to be a winner, to be powerful, to be rich, to be famous, to express our personal dream, and to impose our dream onto other people around us.

Orang-orang yang lebih kaya akan menjadi lebih kaya, dan orang-orang miskin akan dikatakan mereka lebih kaya tapi akan sangat yakin bahwa mereka tidak kaya.

As time passed, it grew easier and easier to let go of what I had. The reason was simple: I had a lot. Like most people who go overseas to do development work, I did so expecting to find out what it's like to be poor. But awakening to my surroundings after a few months, I discovered that that's not what happens. Instead you learn what it's like to be rich, to be fabulously, incomprehensibly bloated with wealth. No one in Kalambayi could afford to share more than I.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

A bar of gold means much more to a pauper than to a king

Price. You're priceless.

Expensive depends on your means.

It is vitally important to the future of the Imperium that we understand the secret of melange. To date, no one has spent the time or effort to unravel its mysteries. People think of Arrakis as an unending source of riches, and they don't care about the mechanics or the details. Shallow thinking.

For a thousand years now, the governorship of Arrakis had been an Imperial boon, granted to a chosen family that would wring the riches out of the sands for a term not to exceed a century. Each time the fief changed hands, a firestorm of pleas and requests for favors bombarded the palace.

Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, was once asked his secret of success. He replied, "Simple. I just say no to everything that is not absolutely vital to me at the moment.

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

million and several billion dollars.

I took the book and glanced at the page Guy was reading. I quoted, 'The rich man's substance is the wellspring of the poor man's living.' Ah yes, that theory, that as the rich grow richer their wealth trickles down to the poor like sand. Well, I have been practising law twenty-five years and all I have seen is it trickle ever upwards.

The old woman finally went bankrupt. She had made so much money every day, how could she have gone bankrupt? I didn't get it.

You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.

I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

and stunningly mean-spirited. Some parts of his life sounded like a fairy tale right out of the movies: There was a promise made when he was a baby, romances, remarkable rebounds, and riches almost too big to be believed. Other parts were so messy and ugly, so very human, that they would never be considered family entertainment.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.