Wealth Quotes

We hate each other by race, color, tribe, wealth, gender etc because everyone wants to feel special and different than the other. I do not however have a solution on how people can stop having an ego that makes them specially superior than the other.

~ Robert Kodingo

... He was only a person on the outside and... his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain.

~ Gail Carson Levine

it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built “The Breakers” he damned himself.

~ Joan Didion

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

~ Max Weber

Wealth is to be created first, then to be shared. What to share if there is no wealth?

~ Girdhar Joshi

We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk , were suddenly elevated in status by this man's misery. We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. It flattered us. We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect. In a while, the magnanimity of the rich would complete the picture. We would feed our scraps to the poor.

~ John Howard Griffin

The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in their craw, is the unacknowledged fact that America has never been an especially capitalist country. The postal system, the land grant provision for public education, the national park system, the Homestead Act, the graduated income tax, the Social Security system, the G.I. Bill -- all of these were and are massive distributions or redistributions of wealth meant to benefit the population at large.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Rich people don't elicit much sympathy.It is not about how to save, invest, spend, hide and give away money, but unmasking the true nature of money, how it works.Be the one to create the system that supports the kind of society we desire for ourselves and the future generation.

~ Prince Akwarandu

Riches begin in the form of thought! The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion. Faith removes limitations!

~ Napoleon Hill

How is it that when we see politics permeate every life sector we call it totalitarianism and when we see religion everywhere we call it theocracy, but when commerce dominates everything we call it liberty?

~ Benjamin Barber

No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. In their eyes the merit of an object which is in any degree either useful or beautiful is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it, a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves.Book I, Chapter 11 - Rent of Land, part II

~ Adam Smith

You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.

~ Napoleon Hill

Wealth creeps under your epidermis like poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself.

~ L.s. Hilton

Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.

~ Anna Godbersen

When you're no one from nowhere it's best to know your limits. Rich kids can play at bohemia, but wealth has long tendrils; it twines into a safety net which can also be a trap for the unprepared. Rich kids have families and backgrounds and connections, and they ask questions, because their world functions on being able to place people. I couldn't expose myself to that.

~ L.s. Hilton

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.

~ Kin Hubbard

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Wealthy is not about accumulating money into banks/pockets, not about having multi-properties to count of the atmospheric knowns, it is when you make others sorrounding you to live a mult - health, happier and balanced life converging to the wealth you have indeed reflecting your available resources that enhences their appreciative earnings. (Getting and Giving). Use your wealth to enrich others indeed.

~ Wilson M. Mukama

For whom, I asked myself innocently, were the riches and dominions that the English conquered and held on to at any price in the most remote corners of the planet? The neighborhoods which succeeded one another interminably down the narrow cobbled streets were not inhabited by the beneficiaries of those enterprises.

~ Sylvia Iparraguirre

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To be rich, focus on your wealth.

~ Deyth Banger

Our lives were a series of extremes. A thanksgiving of riches was bestowed on us at birth: grace and joy and a fair share of beauty, privilege and power. Those blessings which luck had overlooked could be bought. We seemed to exist above the squalor of suffering as most people know it. We were envied. But there were also more expectations...

~ Brooke Hayward

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

~ Genghis Khan

Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal justice system—right here—through the gateway into Gibraltar, where the vans were lined up. That was about 150 new cases, 150 more pumping hearts and morose glares, every week that the courts and the Bronx County District Attorney's Office were open. And to what end? The same stupid, dismal, pathetic, horrifying crimes were committed day in and day out, all the same. What was accomplished by assistant D.A.'s, by any of them, through all this relentless stirring of the muck? The Bronx crumbled and decayed a little more, and a little more blood dried in the cracks. The Doubts! One thing was accomplished for sure. The system was fed, and those vans brought in the chow.

~ Tom Wolfe

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication.

~ Todd William

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

~ Linsey Mcgoey

You create wealth by what you give.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Capitalism brings wealth and inequality with intellectuality.

~ Sandeep Sethi

It is not how much you have that matters. But how much you share that is the most important.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

All that work: his generous patronage of the arts, the vast sums of money he had donated to worthy causes, setting up charitable organizations . . . for what? In the end, none of those good works had redeemed him in the eyes of others. People think that men like me give money away to buy forgiveness for a sin or out of vanity, when it's the winner's pathetic tribute to the loser. Look at me, we seem to be begging, I need you too. I need you to accept me, to admire me, to love me.

~ Carmen Posadas

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

~ John Maynard Keynes

Wealth announces itself with what's easy to break and impossible to clean. The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises.

~ Anthony Marra

Giving is the sacred-gift that creates wealth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Giving is the only thing that creates wealth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Measurement aside, there are two reasons aggregate growth might matter. The first is to create jobs to assimilate the unemployed and anticipate increases in population. The second is to improve living standards. Economic logic does not require overall expansion to achieve either of these objectives. An expanding labour force can be accommodated if hours of work fall. And it's productivity growth, rather than the overall size of the economy, that drives improvements in living standards. Getting bigger doesn't necessarily yield wealth; improving productivity does.

~ Juliet Schor

I'm afraid that just as wealth and privilege can be a stumbling block on the path to the gospel, theological expertise and piety can also get in the way of the kingdom. Like wealth, these are not inherently bad things. However, they are easily idolized. The longer our lists of rules and regulations, the more likely it is that God himself will break one.

~ Rachel Held Evans

Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita