Wealth Quotes

But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

There is no wealth but life.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.