Wealth Quotes - Page 8

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

There is no wealth but life.