Wealth Quotes · Page 125

“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.”

— Frank Herbert

“Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

— Robert Toombs

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

— Francois Rabelais

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

— Horace

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

— Ben Jonson

Being injured as a footballer teaches you many things about yourself but nothing more so than if you have your health then…

— Victor Wanyama

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal…

— Sunday Adelaja

There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth…

— Li Keqiang

“When you send out a powerful thought into the universe, you send out ripples to all parts of it which come back…

— Stephen Richards

“If you took away every materialistic Thing I own, I would be where I am right now in less than 3 Months…

— Sino Melo

“Knowing more people is not important in growing your business. However, more people knowing you is the key to wealth. Be a…

— Jarod Kintz

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the…

— Robert Greene

It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but…

— Katherine Boo

...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are immediately tipped…

— Suzy Kassem

It is not simply the brightest who have the best ideas; it is those who are best at harvesting ideas from others.…

— Alex Pentland

It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that…

— John Michael Greer

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden…

— William Mathews

“Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we…

— John Piper

When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know…

— Cal Thomas

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

— Anand Mahindra

“Life is only worth living if it is used to produce products for the good of humanity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one…

— John Webster

“Having money means more opportunity to practice generosity,” he agrees. “Which is the true cause of wealth.”

— David Michie

“You and I must learn and understand the value of time and how to invest it if we must achieve anything of…

— Sunday Adelaja

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

— Virgil

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

— Charles Spurgeon

“The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

— Anonymous

“It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives…

— Sunday Adelaja

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

— Francois Hollande

“To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products. Begin to invest your time into your purpose and…

— Sunday Adelaja

If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in…

— Joachim Sauer

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

— Edward Young