Quotes tagged ‘Wealth’

(133 total)

“If you're not pretty, flaunting your wealth is all you have.”

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

— John Waters, amazon.com

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com

“Every time we use our wealth it increases.”

— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com

“Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism....We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not ag…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net

“I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”

— Warren Buffett, businessinsider.com

“Trying to minimize taxes too much is one of the great standard cuases of really dumb mistakes.”

— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com

“We just look for no-brainer decisions. As Buffett and I say over and over again, we don't leap seven-foot fences.”

— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com

“An undertaker, of course, would look very unseemly if he were jumping up and down and playing his fiddle during the plague.”

— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com

“I sometimes tell my friends, "I'm doing the best I can. But I've never grown old before. I'm doing it for the first time. And I'm not sure that I'll do it right."”

— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com

“In essence, we are going into the business of creating and maintaing conditioned reflexes.”

— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com

“Academic psychology departments are immensely more important and useful than other academic departments think. And, at the same time, the psychology departments are immensely worse than most of their inhabitants think.”

— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com

“Our game is to recognize a big idea when it comes along,when one doesn't come along very often. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”

— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com

“Remember Louis Vincenti's rule: Tell the truth, and you won't have to remember your lies. It's such a simple concept.”

— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com

“I read everything: annual reports, 10K's, 10Q's, biographies, histories, five newspapers a day. On airplanes, I read the instructions on the backs of the seats. Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time.”

— Charles T. Munger, Warren Buffett, amazon.com

“Uh, yes, most likely, yes. I'm, uh, H. E. Pennypacker. I'm a wealthy industrialist and philanthropist and, uh, a bicyclist. And, um, yes, I'm looking for a place where I can settle down with my, uh, peculiar habits, and, uh, the women that I frequent with.”

— Gregg Kavet, David Mandel, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Spike Feresten, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, Dan O'Keeffe, Andy Robin, Steve Koren, Jennifer Crittenden, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“I think I could be a philanthropist. a kick-ass philanthropist! I would have all this money and people would love me. Then they would come to me and beg! And if I felt like it, I would help them out. And then they would owe me big time!”

— Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, Dan O'Keeffe, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a room. You know, people would be like, "Did you see that guy come out of the bathroom?" "The one with doves? It was beautiful."”

— Daniel Tosh, amazon.com

“If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.”

— John Tyler, presidential-power.org

“Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.”

— John Tyler, en.wikiquote.org