Wealth Quotes · Page 248

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical…

— Barton Gellman

“There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and…

— Paul Graham

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity…

— Kofi Annan

“Happiness is always one more purchase away, one more promotion away, one more investment away, but numerous studies show that once a…

— Francesca Martínez

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the…

— Albert Schweitzer

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But…

— Benjamin Franklin

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of…

— Rashad Evans

“Ideally, earning full-on wealth, not just cash, will become more like what spending is like already. There will be a multitude of…

— Jaron Lanier

“Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world; and the ever-abiding, the good works, are better with your…

— Quran

With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds…

— Denis Waitley

Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping…

— Gerald Priestland

“It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to…

— Robert Henri

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they…

— Stuart Wilde

Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a…

— Richard Jefferies

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

— Lawrence Lessig

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial…

— Anita Roddick

“In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time,…

— Stephen Richards

I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy…

— Huey Newton

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels…

— Thomas Piketty

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing…

— Michael Lewis

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat…

— Giraldus Cambrensis

As a class, Jews give three times as much money to charity as anybody else, but they feel guilty about their wealth…

— Jackie Mason