“... fortune is not in time or place or things; but, good or bad, in the man’s own self for him alone… — Percy FitzPatrick Copy Share Image
There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is… — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty (Proverbs 21:5).” — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is… — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for… — Armand Deutsch Copy Share Image
Eve: "What do you want?" Nadine: "A man of amazing sexual prowess, great sensitivity, stupendous abs, and the face of an angel.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.… — Madsen Pirie Copy Share Image
It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse this will assist in realization of our plans I have an excellent… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
“A country with secure property rights, scientific inquiry and technological innovation will become richer. But, since division of labour is limited by… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
“Such men knew their worth, but did not flaunt it. Such men could look anybody in the eye without flinching; even a… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. — Aeschylus 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
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
Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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
“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
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 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
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
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image