Wealth Quotes

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

It's OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart.

All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

My sense is that we are looking at unbelievable quantities of wealth moving from the control of the kingdom of darkness, to the control of the Kingdom of God.

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

The real wealth in Krishna Consciousness is Humility. We don't have to become a big devotee rather we have to become a Humble Devotee.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst — and that brings the whole country down.

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

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

There is no wealth but love.

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

Real wealth of a nation is the people.

Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

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...

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.