Wealth Quotes · Page 116

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the…

— Edmund Burke

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

— Donald G. Mitchell

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer,…

— Alain de Botton

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which…

— Lawrence Lessig

Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have…

— Andrew Young

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S.,…

— James Surowiecki

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment…

— Felix Rohatyn

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

— Seneca the Younger

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

— Thomas Piketty

In prosperity, GOD tests our gratitude; in poverty, our contentment; in darkness, our faith; at all times our obedience! GOD Bless You!

— Azgraybebly Josland

“But in the midst of the monstrous assembly that is slave to fortune, each solitary small figure who linked her hand to…

— Kate Elliott

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

— Proverbs

Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little…

— John Armstrong

I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to…

— Irvine Welsh

To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Fortune doth both raise up the low and pluck down the high.”

— Sir Thomas More

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of…

— Bob Hawke

Fortune favours the bold.

— Anonymous

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be…

— Christopher Marlowe

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

— Thomas Otway

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all…

— Edmund Burke

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

— Walter Wykes

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this…

— Bahá'u'lláh

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower,…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“It is from your time that wealth is produced, it is time that produces results and product.”

— Sunday Adelaja

When people stop dying, they want to create wealth.

— Josh Ruxin

The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth…

— Margaret Atwood

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than…

— Jaron Lanier

The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have…

— Bernie Sanders

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while…

— Seneca the Younger

As a steward of the U.S.economy and financial systems, the Treasury has helped lay the groundwork for the American economy to become…

— Henry Paulson

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not…

— Herbert Croly

It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was…

— Benjamin Tucker

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

— Horace

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

— Gaylord Nelson