Wealth Quotes

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

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

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

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.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

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.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

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

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

All wealth is the product of labor.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.