Wealth Quotes
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The most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.
Edmund Morris
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So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
William Shakespeare
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The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
Ernest Van den Haag
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I do not believe in diversification. Take a close look at some of the greatest entrepreneurs in U.S. history. Henry Ford never diversified; Bill Gates didn’t diversify. I strongly believe that the best way to create real wealth is to put one’s eggs in one basket and watch that basket (the right one) very carefully. In fact, one can go broke diversifying.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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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
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Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child?
Evangeline Booth
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This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.
Carroll Quigley
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If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
William Greider
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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
Plato
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Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.
Helen Keller
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
Will Durant
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan
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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
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Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere
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Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
Wallace Stegner
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I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?
Stuart Rose
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He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
William Hazlitt
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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.
Bill Mollison
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Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Wealth wants to be able to do whatever the fuck it wants to... And it's winning the war.
Ed Brubaker
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Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Money is a form of wealth. But wealth is not necessarily money. Wealth encompasses much more than material possessions or cash; it includes resources. My book is all about wealth creation. This has been my theme, my philosophy for years. It’s all about wealth creation.
Ziad K. Abdelnour