3,637 Quotes About Wealth

When an entrepreneur becomes a billionaire by sucking all the resources from the world, nobody calls them a thief, yet when a homeless person steals a loaf of bread it is considered a heinous crime against humanity. If this is humanity, then I beg to report, you people are worse than animals.

If you belong to a family where you don’t have to worry about earning bread, I carefully suggest either become extremely obedient to your family or become extraordinarily talented. That’s the only two-way you can earn their respect.

If you can earn money, your 99 bad habits could be ignored. If not, none of your good habits will build your reputation.

If being in a relationship distracts you from work, not being in a one won’t make you a billionaire.

After the third date, nobody cares how good you look or how rich you're. It's all about how you make them feel. That's the key.

Every society had its elites, of course: its wealthy, well-educated, upwardly mobile types. Machiavelli, a republican himself, called them the grandi. The trick to preserving a republic was not to allow them to predominate as a class, to amass power at the expense of their fellows. Or more precisely: the key was not to allow them to amass power at the expense of the common man.

Wealth is a person’s ability to survive a certain number of days forward.

Like a bright light in a dark cave thy budget shows up the leaks from thy purse and enables thee to stop them and control thy expenditures for definite and gratifying purposes

The question of the moral status of wealth, and the relation of Christian faith to issues of economic justice and responsibility, seems to me one of the areas in which Christians are most confused, divided, and uneasy.