Wealth

"I hate the devotees of great wealth but I enjoy seeing the splendor that wealth can buy. And if I were wealthy, Id live in a place with marble walls and marble floors, lapis lazulis ceilings and cloth-of-gold and I would have silver fountains in the courts, flinging an everlasting sheen of sparkling water in the air. Soft low music should breathe forever through the rooms and slim tigerish girls should glide through on softly falling feet, serving all the wants of me and my guests; girls with white bare limbs like molten gold and soft dreamy eyes."

"Few rich men own their property. The property owns them."

"In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is less rich than his father was, and he fears that his sons will be less rich than himself."

"And all you men, whom greatness does so please, Ye feast, I fear, like Damocles."

"Technology is begining to differentiate the haves and the have nots."

"We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice."

"There is nothing immoral about wealth; wealth is something to be valued, owned privately, given and exchanged."

"I hate almost all rich people, but I think Id be darling at it."

"Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream."

"Ploutos, no wonder mortals worship you:"

"The rich man ... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich."

"Never get involved in a venture with a man who inherited his money and didnt earn any himself. Hell assume hes smarter than you are, just because hes rich and youre not, and hell expect you to bow down to his greatness because for all his life people have."