Wealth Quotes

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

You don't need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.

Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

The wealthy have nothing left except money.

Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.

The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.