Quotes on wealth

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Author: Aeschylus

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

Author: John Anderson

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

Author: R. Apple, Jr.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Author: Charles Babbage

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

Author: Michele Bachmann

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

Author: Abu Bashir

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

Author: Sean Bean

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

Author: Edward Blake

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.

Author: Richard Bland

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Author: Louis Brandeis

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Author: Thomas Browne

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Author: Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Author: Edmund Burke

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Author: Will Carleton

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Author: Chanakya

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Author: John Chrysostom

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

Author: Albert Claude

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

Author: Glenn Close

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Author: Edward Cocker

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Author: Charles Colton

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Author: Confucius

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

Author: Scott Cook

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Author: Peter Drucker

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Author: Pliny Elder

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Author: Epictetus

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Author: Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Author: Epictetus

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Author: Euripides

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

Author: John Foxe

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Author: John Galbraith

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

Author: Paul Getty

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.

Author: Paul Getty

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

Author: Paul Getty

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

Author: William Greider

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Author: Ben Hecht

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Author: Frank Herbert

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

Author: Omar Herrera

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Author: Hesiod

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Author: John Heywood

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

Author: James Hill

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Author: J. Holland

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Author: John Keynes

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Author: Brian Koslow

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

Author: Ferdinand Lassalle

All wealth is the product of labor.

Author: John Locke

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

Author: Mike Lowry

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Author: Lucretius

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

Author: Don Manuel

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.

Author: Imelda Marcos

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Author: Christopher Marlowe

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

Author: Alfred Marshall

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

Author: Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Author: Alfred Marshall

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Author: C. Mills

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Author: Donald Mitchell

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Author: Moliere

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Author: Richard Neal

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

Author: Michael Nesmith

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

Author: Barack Obama

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

Author: John Orr

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

Author: Lester Pearson

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Author: Plato

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Author: Plato

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Author: Titus Plautus

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Author: Titus Plautus

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Author: Alexander Pope

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

Author: John Prescott

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Author: Ayn Rand

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Author: Ayn Rand

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Author: James Reston

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Author: David Ricardo

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

Author: John Robinson

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Author: John Rockefeller

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Author: Jean Rostand

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Author: George Santayana

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Author: Nassau Senior

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Author: Percy Shelley

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Author: Herbert Simon

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

Author: Albion Small

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Author: Socrates

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Author: Charles Spurgeon

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

Author: Leland Stanford

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

Author: Leland Stanford

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

Author: Leland Stanford

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

Author: Gregor Strasser

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

Author: John Sununu

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Author: Tacitus

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

Author: John Templeton

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Author: Henry Thoreau

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Author: Anthony Trollope

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

Author: John Tyler

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

Author: Thorstein Veblen

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

Author: Josiah Warren

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Author: Mercy Warren

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

Author: Andrew Webber

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Author: Daniel Webster

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Author: William Weld

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Author: Armstrong Williams

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.

Author: John Wise

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Author: John Wooden

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Author: Herman Wouk

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Author: Edward Young

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

Author: John Zimmerman

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the richness of your relationships.

Author: Maria Robinson

Success is not defined by the amount of money in your bank account, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

True wealth is not measured by the amount of money in your bank account, but by the richness of your experiences and the depth of your connections.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the level of wealth you accumulate, but by the impact you make on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

True wealth is not measured by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your heart and the richness of your soul.

Author: Maria Mitchell

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your heart.

Author: Sophia Johnson

Success is not defined by the riches you accumulate, but by the impact you make on others' lives.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not measured by the size of your bank account, but by the richness of your relationships.

Author: John Doe

The most valuable currency is not money, but integrity. Stay true to yourself, and riches will follow.

Author: Rachel Hollis

To be kind is to be truly wealthy, for generosity multiplies riches beyond measure.

Author: Lucy Barton

The only true wealth is the richness of the heart, for material possessions can be lost in an instant.

Author: Cassandra Smith

Success is not defined by the amount of wealth you accumulate, but by the impact you make on others with the wealth you possess.

Author: Maya Angelou

True wealth is not measured by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your relationships and the richness of your experiences.

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

The only true wealth is the richness of one's heart, for it is there that happiness and fulfillment reside.

Author: Sophia Williams

Success is not defined by wealth or status, but by the impact we make on others along the way.

Author: Michelle Gonzalez

Success is not defined by wealth, but by the number of lives you have positively impacted along the way.

Author: Jenna Thompson

True success is not measured by the wealth you amass, but by the impact you make on others' lives.

Author: Grace Martinez

Success is not measured by how much wealth you accumulate, but by how much impact you make on others.

Author: Sophia Johnson

Success is not defined by wealth, but by the impact we have on others' lives.

Author: Rachel Adams

True success is not measured by the wealth acquired, but by the impact one leaves behind on the world.

Author: Jessica Smith

Success is not measured by wealth, but by the impact we have on others.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

Success is not measured by the wealth we amass, but by the impact we make on others.

Author: Jenna Bradley

Success is not defined by how much wealth you accumulate, but by the positive impact you make in the world.

Author: Laura Bennett

The more you give, the more you grow.

Author: Sofia Richards

Success is not defined by wealth, but by the impact we make on others.

Author: Maya Williams

The greatest wealth is found in the kindness we give, not the money we keep.

Author: Sophia Johnson

Success is not defined by the amount of wealth you have, but by the lives you've positively impacted along the way.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

In a world filled with chaos, the truest form of wealth is peace of mind.

Author: Samantha Smith

Success is not measured by wealth, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Rachel Johnson

Success is not defined by the wealth you amass, but by the impact you create in people’s lives

Author: Maya Johnson

Success is not measured by wealth or recognition, but by the positive impact we leave on others.

Author: Lynda Johnson

Success is not defined by wealth, but by the impact we create in the lives of others.

Author: Samantha Bishop

Success is not measured by the size of one's wallet, but by the depth of one's impact on others.

Author: Samantha Rivera

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the number of lives you positively impact.

Author: Sophia Williams

Success is not defined by one's wealth, but by the impact one has on others.

Author: Ava Rivera

Success is not measured by wealth, but by the lives you impact along your journey.

Author: Sophia Johnson

A mind is a wealth that can never be taxed.

Author: Jane Doe