Wealth Quotes
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
J. Paul Getty -
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
Ramez Naam
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D'Israeli -
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
Ramez Naam -
The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely -
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
Edmund Phelps -
Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
Tony Blair -
I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.
Nandan Nilekani -
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
Warren Farrell -
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.
Hannah Arendt
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
Abraham Cahan -
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
Edmund Phelps -
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
Edmund Phelps -
The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
Natalia Ginzburg -
Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
Napoleon Hill -
A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
Adam Ostrow
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
Edmund Phelps -
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
Socrates -
In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.
Dale T. Mortensen -
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
Imelda Marcos