Wealth Quotes - Page 26

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

We have an energy policy - we're transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don't have the same values as us. In some cases, they're using our money to finance terrorism against us.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

We must create wealth and we must cut our deficits.

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

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.

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

If you get a flow of credit increasing, as we've seen in the last few years - that flow of credit didn't go to more wealth accumulation as we normally use the term in economics, as capital goods. What you got is an increase in bubbles of one kind or another.