Wealth Quotes - Page 38

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

Personal wealth is the by-product of making the world a better place.

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not function merely as isolated "rational wealth maximizers."

The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Most people who have wealth came from nothing or their parents came from nothing. And this idea that anyone can grow wealth is central to what we do.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity. Companies need to be reminded of that.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.