Wealth Quotes
-
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.
-
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
-
Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.
-
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
-
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
-
Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else.
-
No just person ever became quickly rich.
-
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.
-
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.
-
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
-
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
-
The best way to protect yourself and your family in this time of uncertainty is to create wealth for yourself.
-
If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.
-
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?
-
Usmanov has got loads of money - we know that from his wealth.
-
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
-
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
-
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
-
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.
-
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
-
Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
-
What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.
-
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
-
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
