Wealth Quotes - Page 28

The only wealth is life.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.

Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

We need a wealth tax that on a one-time basis is going to take back at least some small fraction of the great windfall that the upper 1 percent, or 5 percent and pay down the government debt, pay back the federal debt because we can't put this on the next generation or they're going to be buried paying taxes.

I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.