Wealth Quotes

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

~ Wess Stafford

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.

~ H.w. Charles

Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, “The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want” (CJB, Proverbs 21:5).

~ H.w. Charles

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

~ Neal Shusterman

The Talmud says that “blessed is He who has created all these to serve me.” German politician Julius Streicher said, “It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

~ H.w. Charles

CODE:Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17)DECODED:Blessed is He that discerneth secrets.Talmud (Berakoth 58a)

~ H.w. Charles

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.

~ Clotaire Rapaille

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

~ Christopher Mcdougall

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint

~ Mervyn Peake

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

~ Alain De Botton

Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.

~ Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky

..the family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-means capturing and holding , something more. That something more is the future-to excel is very well, but one needs to excel and survive. To seize lands is well and good, but we want to hold them for all time. Which means creating and building a family-defending the family that is, and creating the next generation. Because it's the next generation that's our future. Without securing that future, material success is no real success at all.

~ Stephanie Laurens

How arrogant you areTo think your wretched Self so singular!The disappointments of this world will dieIn less time than the blinking of an eye,And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth;What empty foolishness it is to careFor what must one day be dispersed to air!

~ فرید الدین عطار

If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

~ Steven J. Carroll

Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.

~ Larry Stone

[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection, in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.

~ James A. Michener

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America, being a millionaire is not one of them.

~ Jerzy Kosiński

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,and brings in perennial interest.

~ Frederick Soddy

Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions--and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

~ Ayn Rand

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.

~ Thomas Love Peacock

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

~ E.l. Doctorow

Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.

~ Richie Norton

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

~ Stuart Rose

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.

~ Epictetus

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

~ Jay-Z

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

~ John C. Maxwell

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

~ Donald Trump

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

~ Ernest Hemingway

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

~ Jeane Kirkpatrick

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

~ William Petty

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

~ Charles Kuralt

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

~ Eliot Spitzer

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

~ Barry Commoner

All wealth is the product of labor.

~ John Locke

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

~ Michio Kaku

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

~ F. Sionil José

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

~ Ernest Hemingway

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

~ George Orwell

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

~ Mary Douglas