Quotes About Riches

One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meager life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.

Net wealth is a great way to measure riches, but not such a good way to measure poverty. Lots of people have zero, or less than zero. Some of them are destitute; others, like the junior doctor, are going to be fine.

If you're not very careful, your creative business, the very thing which you hoped would lead to liberty and riches, will instead trap you in a hell of hard-working poverty.

All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.

He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away.

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

St. Kitts was the oldest and wealthiest of the English colonies in the Caribbean. This island had rich volcanic soil, a climate of sun and rain, and an endless supply of slaves. Annually it yielded a fortune in sugar and rum for its wealthy, mostly absentee, landholders. Around 1775, the time of the American Revolution, 68 sugar plantations existed on St. Kitts alone!

Money may not be everything, but it's a pretty good cure for poverty.

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

The scent of blood or the scent of gold, they smell the same in the end.

Every touch a lie. I have paid her so much false coin that she half thinks she's rich.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.

Good morning war. Good morning money.

Pearl of great price.

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.