Wealth Quotes
3042 Wealth quotes by 1723 unique authors
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for…
— Andrew Young
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
— Nancy Astor
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This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
— George W. Bush
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We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.
— Buzzie Bavasi
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Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at…
— Douglas Adams
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
— John D. Rockefeller
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Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies…
— Dale Carnegie
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Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element.…
— John D. Rockefeller
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The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
— Warren Buffett
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He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.
— Mitt Romney
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My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.
— Stephen A. Schwarzman
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When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.
— Nick Hanauer
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
— Mark Twain
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.
— Ha-Joon Chang
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As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have…
— Tony Judt
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Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker.…
— Tony Judt
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A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.
— Barack Obama
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In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic…
— Paul Krugman
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
— Rex Stout
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If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
— Charlie Munger
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In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's…
— Steven Pinker
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