Wealth Quotes

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.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

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.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

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

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.