Wealth Quotes · Page 142

The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

— Jayni Chase

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

— Lucretius

“Why will a man waste his creative potency and superlative powers in vanity when he can live in prosperity?”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

— Emma Goldman

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Only men who have invested time to become the best in what they do are fit to sit and dine with great…

— Sunday Adelaja

“The people you look up to and idolize have converted their time into what you see and admire in them today”

— Sunday Adelaja

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

— Wilson Mizner

“Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions…

— Susan Ferrier

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of…

— Vandana Shiva

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“Take a population of 10 people, 9 having a net worth of $ 30,000 and 1 having a net worth of $…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill,…

— Janet Yellen

“There are only a few absolute truths in finances, like the fact that if you spend less than you make and have…

— Celso Cukierkorn

Housing wealth - the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus their mortgage debt - is…

— Janet Yellen

“I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so…

— Leonardo da Vinci

To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable…

— Alexander Hamilton

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,…

— Benjamin Franklin

The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even…

— Frank Pittman

This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an…

— Bernie Sanders

“These coins are not very valuable. Jack went out to get a napoleon changed, so as to have money suited to the…

— Mark Twain

“good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way…

— David Ramsey

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

— Wallace D. Wattles

“You too can become wealthy but only thanks to the amount of time you are willing to convert into products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

— Barbara Sher

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

— Grant Hill

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

— George Soros

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

— Herman Wouk

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

— Chanakya

“If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.”

— Suzy Kassem

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

— Guru Nanak

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.

— Chuck Feeney

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

— Radhanath Swami

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

— Vita Sackville-West

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

— A J Reb Materi