Quotes about wealth

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

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

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money it's about having a lot of options.

Real wealth is not the weight of coins it is the net value of your honesty

Seeds do not grow without soil our soil and our favorable environment is the presence of God

God wants to create something new on this earth something that nobody has ever known or seen until now

You can do anything under one condition you must continually abide in Jesus Christ

Differences about poor and rich people: Poor people ask me where's my money from Rich people invite me for a coffee and never ask it.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man the master of a fool.

The greatest wealth a man can have is the richness of soul... Smile It intimidates those who wish to destroy you

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

Our lives were a series of extremes. A thanksgiving of riches was bestowed on us at birth: grace and joy and a fair share of beauty privilege and power. Those blessings which luck had overlooked could be bought. We seemed to exist above the squalor of suffering as most people know it. We were envied. But there were also more expectations...

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear Robes and furred gowns hide all.

People are not poor because they do not have money they are poor because they do not have knowledge.

And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!

Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world but we haven’t found wealth on the road.

It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger it is our arrogance and egotism

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America being a millionaire is not one of them.

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

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.

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

Wealth without real worthinessIs no good for the neighbourhoodBut their proper mixtureIs the summit of beatitude.

The destiny of any country is in the hands of the people who know God they are the people who carry Christian ideas

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

You may have tangible wealth untold caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.

The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

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.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

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.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

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

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.

On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

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.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The first wealth is health.

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible.

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

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

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

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.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.