Wealth Quotes - Page 40

For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.

I'm not independently wealthy.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.

Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the bottom. Our social programs, modest compared to those of many other Western countries, play an important role in redistributing some of those resources from the haves to the have-nots.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

He who has little will receive. He who has much will be embarrassed.

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

Consumption never creates wealth.

Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.

Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.