Wealth Quotes
3042 quotes by 1723 authors
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The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World…
— Tom Harkin
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Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.
— David George
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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation,…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
— Christopher Marlowe
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The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
— Douglas Coupland
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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
— Mario Puzo
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
— Pliny the Elder
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
— Sallust
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One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my…
— Tom Felton
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It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control…
— W. Cleon Skousen
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One…
— Plato
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
— Seneca the Younger
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Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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