Wealth Quotes - Page 6

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does

There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to spend money. It's a lot easier rationalizing spending a lot for a house.

In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.

Wealth comes from hard work but not because of hard work. Wealth comes because of God. Everything is His.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.