Wealth Quotes

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

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.

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

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

There is no wealth but life.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

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.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.

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.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

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

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.