Wealth Quotes

Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

~ Vikas Swarup

In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergüencería as Santo Domingo was with heat, a cuco shod in iron, exhaling fumes, with the glittering promise of coin deep in the cold lightless shaft of its eyes.

~ Junot Díaz

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

~ William Saroyan

We all believe that, we can’t buy love even if we are rich enough; but I think no one buys his own property.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.

~ Andrew Crofts

There must be a sense of urgency before anything can ever happen.

~ Andrew Crofts

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.

~ Andrew Crofts

The subconscious mind is actively maneuvering in the background to select the activities that will move you closest to the reality that is most consistent with your deeper self-concept. So to achieve wealth, power, fame, romance or peace, you must engage in the powerful task of shifting your subconscious.

~ Kevin Michel

Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ...

~ Andrew Crofts

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

~ Muhammad Ali

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.

~ Marianne Williamson

Anastasia, you're going to have to learn to be rich, too, if you say yes.' He says softly. 'Wealth isn't something I've ever aspired to, Christian.' I frown. 'I know. I love that about you. But then you've never been hungry.' He says simply.

~ E.l. James

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

~ Daniel Suarez

But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing and who can do them no harm; they do so for no other reason except that they are rich, knowing full well that they are so mean and tightfisted that they will certainly never give them one red cent during their whole lives.

~ Thomas More

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

~ Aristotle

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings ofthe past, theirvoices thickwith greaseand ordure,sewer-greedto corrode the earwith the horrorsof the pastand the voidsof new stupidity.One could drownwaiting for the poorto makeone fine distinction.Yes, destroy ussay the richand you losethe rootsof God.

~ Norman Mailer

Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children are not dressed warmly enough for winter. Real poverty is when the housing we can afford is not adequate to the needs of our families. On the other hand, real poverty is - equally - when I have eaten so much that I am uncomfortable, and again, my thoughts center on food. Or when I have so many clothes that I have to spend a lot of mental energy making choices among them or finding ways to store them. Or when, regardless of my living conditions, I am discontent and brooding about how to have more. Real poverty is when material things are uppermost and pressing - whether because we have too few or too many of them. It is poverty, because the human mind and spirit are made for higher things, worthier pursuits.

~ Maxine Hancock

When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.

~ David Servant

For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good.

~ G.k. Chesterton

The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.

~ David P. Gontar

True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family.

~ Joseph C. Kunz Jr.

Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.

~ David Servant

Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in any small way succeeded is to me a prize beyond measure, the most wonderful wealth that I could ask for, a form of prosperity that I would wish for the whole world to experience and enjoy.

~ Roz Savage

Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy.

~ Toba Beta

Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.

~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood

On the second and the third night there was again a ball -- this time in mid-ocean, during a furious storm sweeping over the ocean, which roared like a funeral mass and rolled up mountainous seas fringed with mourning silvery foam. The Devil, who from the rocks of Gibraltar, the stony gateway of two worlds, watched the ship vanish into night and storm, could hardly distinguish from behind the snow the innumerable fiery eyes of the ship. The Devil was as huge as a cliff, but the ship was even bigger, a many-storied, many-stacked giant, created by the arrogance of the New Man with his ancient heart.

~ Ivan Bunin

An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers To You Altitude of Beatitudes.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

How much you give is not counted by amount, but by fraction

~ Sophia Cajon

Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come.

~ Joel T. Mcgrath

.....He lost his childhood but in return got worthy wealth, the wisdom ....!

~ M.h. Rakib

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love. Napoleon Hill

~ Napoleon Hill

Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and ability are inseparable from wealth: let them observe that Cincinnatus, the one man in whom Rome reposed all her hope of survival, was at that moment working a little three-acre farm (now known as Quinctian meadows) west of the Tiber, just opposite the spot where the shipyards are today. A mission from the city found him at work on his land - digging a ditch, maybe, or ploughing. Greetings were exchanged, and he was asked - with a prayer for God's blessing on himself and his country - to put on his toga and hear the Senate's instructions. This naturally surprised him, and, asking if all were well, he told his wife Racilia to run to their cottage and fetch his toga. The toga was brought, and wiping the grimy sweat from his hands and face he put it on; at once the envoys from the city saluted him, with congratulations, as Dictator, invited him to enter Rome, and informed him of the terrible danger of Minucius's army.

~ Livy

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

~ Stephen Richards

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.

~ Christopher Dutton

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth — that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

~ Alain De Botton