Wealth Quotes - Page 19

I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Time is wealth, and unlike money when it is gone you cannot replace it.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

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

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

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

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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.

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.