Wealth Quotes
3042 quotes by 1723 authors
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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early…
— Zhuangzi
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If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
— Ayn Rand
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Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To…
— Khalil Gibran
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All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.
— Unknown Author
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We made a sacred covenant to follow the Creator's life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of taking care of this land and…
— Thomas Banyacya
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America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking…
— Stewart Udall
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When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you…
— Alanis Obomsawin
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Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the…
— Ferdinand von Mueller
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Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting…
— Bob Brown
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I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us…
— Rich Mullins
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It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It's OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart.
— S. Truett Cathy
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To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.
— J. Edward Day
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The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes,…
— Jacob Schiff
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Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a…
— David Korten
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I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
— Alexander Hamilton
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The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source…
— Alexander Hamilton
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