Quotes about Wealth

But it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.

Technology should increase the gap in income, but it seems to decrease other gaps. A hundred years ago, the rich led a different kind of life from ordinary people. They lived in houses full of servants, wore elaborately uncomfortable clothes, and travelled about in carriages drawn by teams of horses which themselves required their own houses and servants. Now, thanks to technology, the rich live more like the average person.

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.

The boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone.

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing they have is money.

You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

[On Hollywood:] There are millions to be grabbed out here, and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.