Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
“But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest… — 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty Copy Share Image
So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
“May your enemies run far away from you. If you acquire riches, may they remain yours always. Your beauty will be that… — Buddhist Pali Incantation Copy Share Image
“In the end of the day it matters much more how wise you spent your money than how much of it you… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks,… — Willie Mays Copy Share Image
Growing up we never had the best house on the block, the best car, or the most money, but one thing I… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
“It was at that moment that Markisha decided to apply for CalWORKs. She’d rented a room in an apartment she shared with… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
While Trump, and, yes, Biden spend time with wealthy donors, Warren refuses big money. She also refused to participate in a Fox… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“There is a wide difference between having poison and being poisoned. All apothecaries have poisons ready for special uses, but they are… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“At 14, I am an experiment. Inside, I am resurrected. I am in the middle of the kind of explosion of perspective… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Our parents busted their butts to make us feel like we weren't broke and in our neighbourhood we were probably more well… — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
“Because life is robust, Because life is bigger than equations, stronger than money, stronger than guns and poison and bad zoning policy,… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
If you sell the Vatican and you take that money and you use it to feed every single human being on the… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“Mnookin, predictably, started fumbling because the frame of the conversation had shifted from how I’d respond to the threat of my son’s… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
I mean this is a revolution in how campaigns work - more money was spent by super PACs than by either myself… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
“Wealthy people build palaces with nine floors. At the time of their departure (dying), the palace jests with them, ‘You are going… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I was young so when I had that job at Burger King, I was still in high school and I just needed… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated,… — Brad Katsuyama Copy Share Image
Everybody could use the money, but you don't play for it - you play with your heart - and that's a big… — Johan Cruyff Copy Share Image
“In Montana in the 1890s, as in the United States in the 2010s, the laws were loose enough to allow men of… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money… Let me… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you that every man, whether he is born rich or poor, is obliged to do something in this world—to… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
“Death was an existential catastrophe, a rip in the soft upholstery with which humanity padded over a hard uncaring universe, but it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
