Wealth Quotes · Page 190

Here's something we're rarely told growing up: our world rewards wealth, not hard work or talent.

— Winnie Byanyima

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule…

— Homer

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

— Ptolemy

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There's no two ways about it.

— Jess Phillips

“If money, or wealth in general, is truly the root of all evil, how come the majority of people want to succeed…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own…

— Jamie Johnson

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or…

— G. H. Hardy

“Ah, Iddio non paga il Sabatol (‘God does not pay on a Saturday’)—the wages of men’s sins often linger in their payment,…

— George Eliot

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to…

— Yoshihiko Noda

I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the…

— Eminem

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Choosing wealth as a goal requires facing everything about your money bravely, honestly, with courage -- which is a very, very hard…

— Suze Orman

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children…

— Maxine Hancock

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to…

— Marie Curie

Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial,…

— Sufjan Stevens

Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to…

— Bill Moyers

“exponential growth. In ancient China a man came to the emperor and demonstrated to him his invention of the game of chess.…

— Anonymous

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

“One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms…

— Jeannine Atkins

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

— Henry Clay

Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

— Ovid

“Wealth without real worthiness Is no good for the neighbourhood; But their proper mixture Is the summit of beatitude.”

— Sappho

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks…

— Steven Pinker

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their…

— Andrew Carnegie

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

— Sophocles

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he…

— Anonymous

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and…

— Thomas Piketty

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

— Ernest Van den Haag

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

— Ovid

“Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

— Monica Johnson

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

— Gary Vaynerchuk