Wealth Quotes - Page 18

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

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.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

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

It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.

Choosing wealth as a goal requires facing everything about your money bravely, honestly, with courage -- which is a very, very hard thing for most of us to do.

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.

If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.