Apology Quote by Adam Smith

“If apologies were for sale the world could have been full of rich people”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“To confess greatness and financial prosperity will be a joke if you still waste time and spend time on non-productive events.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

— Clarence Darrow

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

— Samuel Smiles

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but…

— Thucydides

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Wealth can fill you with arrogance, and so can renunciation. So arrogance is the only obstruction.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

— Henry David Thoreau

When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of…

— Zicheng Hong

“The measure of wealth is the ability to afford ones' mistakes.”

— Elyse Wilk