Wealth Quotes
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I hear you’re in line to inherit your uncle’s wealth. That makes you quite the heiress. Not many Colored women can claim that.
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Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.
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Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
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He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.
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In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.
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Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.
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Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.
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Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
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Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
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Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.
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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
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Never seek illicit wealth.
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You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
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The wealth of agreements we will be signing together on September 5 bears witness to the increasing levels of practical cooperation.
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Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.
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All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
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I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
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I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.
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We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
