Quotes about Wealth

That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is "Greed.

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Propertied persons typically have large estates and freedom of movement through the society. At the same time, the property of the rich has the effect of crowding and confining the less propertied. The very poor are typically restricted to narrow geographical limits and are regarded as aliens outside them.

The more effective policy for a society is to find ways of persuading its thieves to abandon their role as competitors for property for the sake of becoming audience to the theater of wealth. It is for this reason that societies fall back on the skill of those poietai who can theatricalize the property relations, and indeed, all the inner structures of each society.

If wealth and might are to be performed, great wealth and great might must be performed brilliantly.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there.

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.

The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.