Wealth Quotes

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use ne...

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to ...

... I have always thought of Christmas-time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasa...

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, Jo...

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise c...

People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he ...

We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergi...

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

When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth...

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...

'Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symph...

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent...

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree....

...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. W...

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that...

A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily ...

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without b...

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we w...

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation...

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

They had paused before the table on which the bride’s jewel were displayed, and Lily’s heart gave an...

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story ...

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appre...

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues...

In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal ...

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions...

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd h...

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfull...

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to sla...

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that...

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill o...

The wealth of the imperial countries is our wealth too. On the universal plane this affirmation, you...

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future in...

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he s...

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him su...

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their w...

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the com...

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a mi...

The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all econ...

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equali...

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the...

You can be rich or deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; ...

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment whe...

Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral dec...

I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in...

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone...

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common wel...

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite i...

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Book...

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of pr...

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each g...

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the gro...

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures a...

On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencie...

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemploymen...

Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the lik...

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy t...

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such pr...

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still tryi...

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of we...

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority...

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne w...

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even ha...

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It ...

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our he...

...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken...

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of pr...

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scie...

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know no...

One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.