Wealth Quotes

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

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.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

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.