Wealth Quotes

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

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.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.