Wealth Quotes

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.

it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some...

More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. A...

That we have made a hero of Howard Hughes tells us something interesting about ourselves, something ...

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I thin...

The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, th...

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any...

The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

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

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for ...

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, ...

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, ...

All wealth is the product of labor.

All wealth is the product of labor

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, ro...

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants o...

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an importa...

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes ...

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they ...

I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having claw...

No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty;...

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s...

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own it's the freedom to buy an...

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ide...

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various process...

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the d...

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of bala...

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as th...

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our ...

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything ...

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exact...

It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession a...

But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but...

Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky pala...

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its...

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as mu...

The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who ...

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before he...

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing a...

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything had...

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barr...

For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both meri...

He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they si...

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit....

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floo...

The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in thei...

I wish to become rich so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little like t...

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the pau...