Wealth Quotes

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

All wealth is the product of labor.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

There is no wealth but life.

Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

With wealth comes responsibility.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.