Wealth Quotes - Page 27

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

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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

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

You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

On inequality, I contend that far too much of the nation's wealth and income is gravitating to too few. This undermines the democracy we all cherish and the overall social cohesion necessary to maintain our wonderfully successful society.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!

The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.