Wealth Quotations

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.

The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.

I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me.

I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.

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

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Research by James Poterba at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that the wealth of the U.S.'s elderly is highly skewed. About half of retirees have little or no financial wealth when they retire and depend almost entirely on Social Security for their income.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding.

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

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

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

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.

Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

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

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

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.

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

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

When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing.

Wealth and power don’t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.