What Is Wealth Quotes
Experience is not necessarily accumulated over the extent of time lived. In my opinion, it is accumulated over the degree and variety of activities a person has been involved in
Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool
That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.
If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution, " the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.
There are just three things that you can do with Money: save, give, or invest. Somehow in here in America, with all our creativity, we have invented a fourth use for money: we can squander it
The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose, ' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.
The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige.
One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.
You don't have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.
…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.
And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him.
Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)
Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)
MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.
The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people. I though everybody knew that.
When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.
So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.
How do you explain a world that gifts evil men with privilege and wealth and looks the other way while they torment and abuse the weakest members of society?
Nonviolence is supremely the weapon of the dispossessed, the underprivileged, and the egalitarian, not those who are still addicted to private profit, commercial values, and great wealth.
So why do we call her crazy for piling her trailer full of more cats than she could take care of but applaud when somebody accumulates more money than they can spend? They're both hoarders.
We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature.
the fighting machines that kept the country safe, and, the coffers full.
On Money - There are many ways to get rich quickly. All of them are risky. Some of them are dangerous. A few of them are downright fatal.
No one should ever be allowed to make you feel unworthy of becoming wealthy. Your wealth lies mainly upon your understanding of your worth.
Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!
Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.
