Financial Wealth Quotes

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.

The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.

There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer. That man is richest, whose Estate is in a growing condition…

And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.

I don't know if there was even a hundred million dollars in the whole country!

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

... our economy is gradually becoming a zero-sum game between financial wealth holders and the rest of America.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

I think for some people real success would mean having all the money in the world and having everyone love you every minute of the day. I don’t know if that’s really my aspiration. I just want to keep doing this. I just want to keep finding new ways and new paths and new territory. Every time I get to do it, it feels like freedom.

What's the difference? Ninety million or 80 million. You still can't spend it all.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e., student loans and so forth) - has made Wall Street bankers and financial people excessively, unfairly, out-of-proportionally rich.

Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.