What Is Wealth Quotes

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

To attract money, you must focus on wealth.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Only stupid questions create wealth.

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .