Wealth and Poverty

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying. [Select]

Fran Lebowitz

Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it. [Select]

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman [Shop] {Also in: Life and Death}

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. [Select]

Robert Orben {Also in: Work and Recreation}

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. [Select]

John D. Rockefeller {Also in: Vice and Virtue}

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting. [Select]

Billy Rose

When the rich make war it's the poor that die. [Select]

Jean-Paul Sartre {Also in: War and Peace}

Having nothing, nothing can he lose. [Select]

William Shakespeare: Henry VI [Shop]

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. [Select]

George Bernard Shaw {Also in: Happiness and Misery}

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. [Select]

George Bernard Shaw

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. [Select]

Mark Twain

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it. [Select]

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. [Select]

Nero Wolfe

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. [Select]

Frank Lloyd Wright

You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Select]

Stephen Wright

A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it. [Select]

Unknown

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. [Select]

Unknown

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. [Select]

Spike Milligan

All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score. [Select]

Unknown

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. [Select]

Unknown

Change is good, but dollars are better. [Select]

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