Wealth Quotes · Page 218

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

— Ralph Nader

Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as…

— John Caudwell

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

— George Herbert

To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for…

— John Calvin

“Persons born in wealth and luxury seldom achieve greatness. They were not born for labour; and, without labour, nothing that is worth…

— Maria S. Cummins

Here's an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life: CZ = WZ. It means your "comfort zone"…

— T. Harv Eker

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on…

— Dan Miller

“Remember that high school boy in Omaha who got 30 million for his cross-media-e-commerce-integration-thingamajig? It was plastered all over the news and…

— The Creator of Rich Kids of Instagram

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

— Marie Corelli

“I don't trust good fortune that comes so easily. There is always a price to be paid, Frannie. Always." He gave her…

— Lorraine Heath

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls…

— Frederick William Faber

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

— Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

If we could support school curricula about social class, we might discuss the full complexity of 'wealth' within the parameters of our…

— Alissa Quart

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped…

— Frederick Stanley Maude

Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,…

— Tito Colliander

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground.…

— Oprah Winfrey

“And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.

— Anonymous

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that…

— Shakti Gawain

Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth…

— Sam Harris

“America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons,…

— Bill Bryson

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

— Mason Cooley

You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every…

— Henri Nouwen

The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified…

— Warren Buffett

“Grace is released more abundantly as you work.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

— Ronald Reagan

“A man should never make a fortune while another man starves.”

— Gordon McCormick

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth…

— Tom Stoppard

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

— Lee Child

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

— Greg Perry

“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people…

— Frantz Fanon

“We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through”

— Dinesh D'Souza

“when you are earning money by doing what you don’t particularly like, there will be an urgent need to buy pleasure and…

— Awdhesh Singh

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people…

— Barack Obama

“There is only one "now." Realize how rich you are in it. Right now you are creating history…your legacy. Make your time…

— The Angel Affect