Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste’s money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste’s beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the same furtive...

He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at...

If you always do “just enough” you’ll never have more than enough.

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the...

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

When you act on your beliefs, the realisation that happens is caused by you and this will in turn lead to a consequence.

When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Wealth without wisdom is equal to life without purpose

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.

On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being...

Father is a school manqué … He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

She probably thinks I have the clothes of a millionaire. And I do, but they’re still on his body, which is still in the trunk of my car.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no...

Wealth—one billion, two billion, what’s the difference? The difference is one billion—the same difference as flat broke, like me, and one billion.

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper...

Before Gutenberg, libraries were small — the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers,...

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:Politics without principle.Wealth without work.Commerce without morality.Pleasure without conscience.Education without character.Science without humility.Worship without sacrifice.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most...

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Egoism… is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new ‘needs’ emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house...

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don’t share their shit. They’re like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw....

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.

If the great internet connects us all … then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?

There are no prizes for defying yourself.

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.

With some money in your pocket you walk confidently, you talk confidently and you work confidently.

Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you’ve got less

Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God`s Word so fashion your thought according to God`s Word.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men...

You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.

If you’re only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth… c’mon. I’m going to do much more than that.

Can you break my five-dollar bill into five singles? Women love guys with lots of money.

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!