Wealth Quotes
We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.
A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.
Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.
No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.
... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.
Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.
All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.
Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?
When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.
Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity. Companies need to be reminded of that.
The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.
Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.
Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.
The Clintons have sold everything about America and its policy and its future for their own personal gain in terms of amassing incredible wealth.
I was right - Barack Obama's primary objective is to return the nation's wealth to it's rightful owners. This guy comes, if you look at some of his czars, for example, this Mark Lloyd guy.
If you have questions about how people earn their wealth, for crying out loud, the Clintons have a way of doing it that virtually nobody else could parlay.
You can criticize Trump and his wealth all day long, but you can't say he hasn't worked. You can say that about the Clintons.
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.