Wealth Quotes

3042 Wealth quotes by 1723 unique authors

A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of… — Nouriel Roubini
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. — Rita Rudner
There is no wealth but life. — John Ruskin
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution. — Jonathan Sacks
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. — Paul Samuelson
You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right. — Bernie Sanders
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions,… — George Santayana
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana
I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth. — Rick Santorum
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. — May Sarton
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. — Phyllis Schlafly
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because… — E F Schumacher
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. — George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. — George Bernard Shaw
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially… — Gail Sheehy
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a… — Herbert Simon
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small… — Peter Singer
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social… — Mark Skousen
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. — Samuel Smiles
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but… — Adam Smith
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give… — Tony Snow
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear. — Sonia Sotomayor

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