What Is Wealth Quotes
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.
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.
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.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money
If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.
We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.
If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.
