Wealth Quotes
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
Baruch Spinoza -
The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They were involved in the business but most of the family wealth was put into trust and most of the family did not in fact did not enjoy enormous wealth.
Ratan Tata
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Wealth is the sinews of success.
Bion of Borysthenes -
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.
Andrew Young -
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.
Alanis Obomsawin -
Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.
Vita Sackville-West -
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.
Lewis Carroll -
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
Muhammad Ali
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Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way.
George S. Clason -
If this country America is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.
Adelle Davis -
Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.
Anne Finch -
I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the millions of dollars and the title, the ministry. So, I chose the ministry. If I was not sincere, then I would have easily went to Vietnam, boxin' exhibitions, and made a couple of cool million.
Muhammad Ali -
Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.
Thomas Sowell -
We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.
Josiah Strong
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The most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.
Edmund Morris -
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.
Charles Dickens -
There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
Millicent Fawcett -
We don’t need wealth. We don’t need riches. We Lanes just believe harder than everyone else, and good things come to us.
Courtney Milan -
I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.
Ratan Tata -
If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
William Greider
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
Sallust -
People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
Studs Terkel -
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin.
John Ruskin -
Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.
William Shakespeare