Wealth Quotes

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 need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

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

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

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

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

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

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

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.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.