Wealth Quotes

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The first wealth is health.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

~ Christy Turlington

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

~ Robert Solow

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

~ Henry Louis Gates

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

~ Edward Steichen

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

~ Gene Tierney

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

~ Napoleon Hill

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

~ Ernie Banks

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

~ Henry Adams

When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.

~ Cornel West

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

~ Karl Marx

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

~ John Maynard Keynes

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

~ George W. Bush

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

~ Rick Perry

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

~ Adam Smith

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

~ Robert Collier

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

~ Margaret Thatcher

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

~ Edmund Burke

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

~ Theodore Parker

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.

~ Tom Felton

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

~ William Feather

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

~ Hesiod

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

~ Charles M. Schwab

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

~ Sophocles

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

~ Edward Young

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

~ Tony Campolo

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

~ Josh Billings

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

~ Helen Fisher

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

~ P. G. Wodehouse

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

~ Claude M. Bristol

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

~ Robert Kennedy

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

~ José Rizal

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

~ Suze Orman

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

~ Barack Obama

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

~ Steven Biko