Pope Francis Quotes

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

The world no longer permits the stronger to kill the weaker, but it allows the wealthy to oppress the poor. Money is holier than man. Human life is less sacred than property. To save a dollar is regarded as a more necessary virtue than to save a human heart. Society cares more for fortune than for truth.

I am not in Wall Street for my health.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

The stock market is not a good arbitrator of success over the long term.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Money can't buy poverty.

Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.