Quotes about Wealth

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. (201)

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house - the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.

In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.

Oh, blessed are the simple rich, for they inherit the earth!

One thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

I always found when I was most focused, that's when I did the best financially.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.