Wealth Quotes

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 modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.