Clara Schumann Quotes

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

Those who own much have much to fear.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

No man can always have riches.

Politics can't motivate people. The desire to get rich—that is the only way to mobilize the whole society.

We have lost the old love of work.

To be a billionaire, you have got to get lucky.

Let's be honest: material comes and goes.

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.