Quotes by Subject: Wealth & Poverty
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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. | |||
The Gods have two ways of dealing harshly with us - the first is to deny us our dreams and the second is to grant them. | |||
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. | |||
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. | |||
Your wealth is where your friends are. | |||
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. | |||
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. | * | ||
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' | |||
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all. | |||
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. | |||
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. | |||
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. | |||
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while to make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy. | |||
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. | |||
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. | |||
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. | |||
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. | |||
It's no trick to make a lot of money, if all you want to do is make a lot of money. (Citizen Kane, 1940) | |||
Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are. | |||
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. | * | ||
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. | |||
My pride fell with my fortunes. | |||
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. | |||
Money doesn't care who has it. | |||
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infititely precious things that cannot be taken from you. | |||
Lack of money is the root of all evil. | |||
If you can count your money, you don?t have a billion dollars. | |||
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral resources. | |||
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannotget more time. | |||
Money often costs too much. | |||
The wretched have no compassion. | * | ||
Virtue had never been as respectable as money. | |||
There must be more to life than having everything. | |||
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. | * | ||
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. | |||
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. | * | ||
All I want is everything. | * | ||
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family. | |||
To be poor in America was to be invisible, but not after this week, not after those images of the bedraggled masses at the Superdome, convention center and airport. No one can claim that the post-Reagan orthodoxy of low taxes and small government, which does wonders for the extremely rich, also inevitably does wonders for the extremely poor. What was that about a rising tide lifting all boats? What if you don't have a boat? | |||
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. | |||
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. | * | ||
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. | |||
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. | * | ||
I'm a good believer in capitalism, which when you're making it is wonderful and if you're not, it fucks you and stabs your heart and rips your entrails out. Without money, you're dead in this society. When I had no money, I had nothing. Women didn't like me as much, I wasn't as charming. I was alone most of the time. Hookers never throw you a charity fuck and with shrinks I could not get therapy. | * | ||
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. | * | ||
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. | |||
The classes that wash most are those that work least. | |||
When rich speculators prosper while farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn - all this is robbery and chaos. | |||
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. | * | ||
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. | * | ||
The only thing I like about rich people is their money. | |||
Say I'm a banker and I create $30 million. I should get a part of that. And if you're a banker who destroyed $30 billion? | * | ||
It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. | * | ||
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. | * | ||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
