Wealth Quotes

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.