Wealth famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.
-- Adam Yauch -
Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
-- Adrian Rogers -
What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
-- Agatha Christie -
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
-- Ai Weiwei -
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.
-- Al Gore -
You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
-- Al Koran -
Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.
-- Alan Cohen -
Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
-- Alexander Pope -
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
-- Alexander Pope -
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
-- Alfred Marshall -
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
-- Alfred Marshall -
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
-- Alfred Marshall -
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
-- Alistair Begg -
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
-- Alistair Begg -
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
-- Anatole France -
We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.
-- Andrew Bacevich -
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.
-- Andrew Napolitano -
For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt must be redistributed.
-- Andrew Sandlin -
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
-- Andrew Young -
Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
-- Andy Rooney -
Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.
-- Ann Wilson -
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
-- Aristotle -
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.
-- Aristotle -
Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
Networking is an essential part of building wealth.
-- Armstrong Williams -
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
-- Arthur C. Brooks -
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world.
-- Arthur Hopkins -
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
-- Ayn Rand -
It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.
-- Ayn Rand -
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
-- Ayn Rand -
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.
-- Barry McGuigan -
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
-- Bayard Taylor -
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
-- Beatrice Webb -
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
-- Beatrice Webb -
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
-- Ben Jonson -
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World
-- Bernard Lietaer -
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
-- Bernard Meltzer -
You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
-- Bernie Sanders -
Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
-- Bill Gross -
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
-- Billy Sunday -
Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.
-- Billy Sunday -
The only wealth you keep is the wealth that you give away.
-- Bo Sanchez -
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
-- Bob Brown -
The ability to Self-Motivate is a cornerstone of true wealth.
-- Bob Proctor -
So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.
-- Boris Johnson -
People say to me that I cant be nervous because Ive had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."
-- Brian Tracy -
Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.
-- Brian Tracy -
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
-- Brian Tracy -
Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.
-- Brian Tracy -
All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.
-- Brian Tracy -
All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
-- Brian Tracy -
I like having the dough to come and go as I please.
-- Bruce Willis -
We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.
-- Buzzie Bavasi -
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
-- Catherine Helen Spence -
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
-- Charles Babbage -
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
-- Charles Kingsley -
The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s.
-- Charles Salvador -
Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.
-- Charles Simmons -
Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.
-- Charlie Munger -
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.
-- Chris Rock -
The rich live the same all over the world.
-- Christian Dior -
O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.
-- Christian Scriver -
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
-- Christopher Columbus
