It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
~ Robert Burton
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
~ Tom Waits
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
~ Henry Ford
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
~ Kin Hubbard
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
~ Larry Ellison
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
~ George Bancroft
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
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.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.
~ Shiv Nadar
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
~ Jim Rohn
Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.
~ James E. Faust
If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.
~ Guru Nanak
There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible.
~ Isabella Bird
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
~ George Santayana
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
~ Samuel Smiles
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
~ Molière
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
~ James J. Hill
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
~ Noam Chomsky
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
~ Samuel Johnson
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
~ Larry Niven
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
~ Chanakya
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
~ Ramakrishna
The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.
~ Thiruvalluvar
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity.
~ April Gornik
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
~ T. Harv Eker
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
~ Tim Bishop
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
~ Alfred Marshall
Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
~ Charlie Munger
Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
~ Timothy Noah
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.
~ Erik Voorhees
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
~ Samora Machel
Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
~ Barton Gellman
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
~ Lucretius
