Money and Wealth

Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the government takes it and spends it the way it wants to?

Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

[ Of Ronald Reagan’s proposals to increase government revenues by reducing taxes :] Voodoo economics.

 

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a 80 far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money .

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie, But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

So I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.