A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Lawrence Ellison top the Forbes list of the top 10 richest people in the U.S. having a… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
There's no excuse in 2019, with the wealth we have as a nation, with the technology we have as a country, that… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Up until 1981, all classes of income were rising at about the same rate. However, in about 1981 a split started to… — Dean Graziosi Copy Share Image
Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the… — Leon G. Cooperman Copy Share Image
In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social… — Diogo Vasconcelos Copy Share Image
The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A human being, like a business, makes profits and suffers losses. For a human being, however, the ultimate currency is not money,… — Tal Ben-Shahar Copy Share Image
[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise -… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
“I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself? — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
“The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie’s warning about wealth: ‘There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Discover what you could do with your life and empower yourself in that area. Add value to yourself in that your area… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Every second, minute you refuse to invest is a second farther away from your greatness” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Quite often the things that fascinated you from childhood are the very things that will bring you fame and fortune. — Tassel Daley Copy Share Image
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption. — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfillment of your purpose.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image