What Is Wealth Quotes

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

Verily, affluence brings anxiety!

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

All true wealth is biological.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.