Wealth Quotes - Page 30

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

all my wealth is in my memories.

Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

Learn something that is valuable to others. Learn everything about it. Then maximize your earning from that knowledge. And then start your own business. That is what you have to do if you want to become very wealthy.

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

These days, the media is defining what cultural capital is, and it's easily learned. If you have money, anything can be bought. We see this in China and Russia with what I call the "Bling Dynasty and New Oligarchy" in Generation Wealth. As people got rich and everybody started buying Louis Vuitton bags, it became clear that to distinguish yourself you had to have more than an expensive bag. People began to want the things that money is not supposed to be able to buy - history, tradition, education, and culture.

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

Rich relationships lead to much more than money. They lead to success, fulfillment, and wealth.

Competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006 at the age of 16 was daunting for me. It was my first major senior competition and to go out there in front of such a huge crowd was terrifying at the time, but I've had so many senior internationals since then, I feel that this experience has given me the confidence to give it the best shot that I can.

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.