3,637 Quotes About Wealth

The worlds of poverty and wealth collided, and I guess I felt a little dose of what the experts call culture shock. According to Mother Teresa, it is among the wealthy that we can find the most terrible poverty of all— loneliness. So perhaps I was still among the poorest of the poor, but these poor folks had some cash!

In much of Africa, labor, not land, constituted the sole form of property recognized by law, a form of consolidating wealth and generating revenue, which meant that African states tended to be be small and that, while European wars were fought for land, African wars were fought for labor.

In that moment he was no longer a slave, as he'd once considered, for his existence inside that house was now a circumstance of his own choosing, although he failed to recognize the score of wealthy men who were each slaves to their fortunes and indeed all of those fanciful tyrants who wielded influence over many people yet held less authority over their own lives than the servants they commanded.

From The Necessity of Finance book: "In our modern civilization, to struggle financially means to struggle in every aspect of life (Criniti, 2013, p. 21).

Principle 1 from The Most Important Lessons in Economics and Finance book: "It can take a lifetime to build a solid business and moments to destroy it" (Criniti, 2014, p. 32).

You are as rich as you are willing to communicate.

Poor is the manifestation of the absence of communication.

The more control you have, the more income you have.

You are as wealthy as you trust yourself.