Wealth Quotes - Page 37

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.

I'm looking at a tax process that will allow people to keep more of their money because we know what happens when job creators get to keep more of their money than they're - they have the confidence to go out and spend that money to create jobs that in turn create wealth.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due to its refusal to make business adjustments in accounting procedures that pass the consequences of emissions to the public and the future.

I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.

We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.

You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation everyone is wealthy.

I find man utterly unaware of what his wealth is or his fundamental capability is. He says time and again, "We can't afford it." For instance, we are saying now that we can't afford to do anything about pollution but after the costs of not doing something about pollution have multiplied many fold beyond what it would cost to correct it now, we will spend many fold what it would cost us now to correct it.