Wealth Quotes
3042 quotes by 1723 authors
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Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
— Unknown Author
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Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with or…
— Jerry I. Porras
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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make…
— Gautama Buddha
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Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that…
— Harry Boyte
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Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must…
— Socrates
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The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the…
— Linda McQuaig
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It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty…
— John Michael Greer
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Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life.
— Unknown Author
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth;…
— Socrates
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The public doesn’t have to be hostile to the rich. ‘Robbing the rich to help the poor’ will only drive the rich away to other…
— Zong Qinghou
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
— Socrates
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Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
— Empedocles
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Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.
— Mark Lynas
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You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and…
— George Osborne
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In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a…
— Randy Alcorn
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I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth
— Jay-Z
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The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor…
— Andrew Johnson
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Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary…
— Joe Conason
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