Wealth Quotes

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

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

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

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

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

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.