“Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that -… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners,… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Affluence has not brought misery. The money did not stay in your pocket; it got into your head. Only then misery came… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything?… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“The more television people watch, the more they overestimate the affluence of other people. And the lower they rate their own relative… — Richard Layard Copy Share Image
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Talents are seeds of greatness. With big dreams well dispensed in form of achievements, you can pick money from people’s pockets and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a… — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“A golden heart, a diamond soul, a silver lining attitude and a titanium will power is the finest and the only jewellery… — Shahla Khan Copy Share Image
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
