Wealth Quotes - page 13

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it. (Adam Smith)
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. View quote
Adam Smith
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity. View quote
Adam Smith
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life. View quote
S. I. Hayakawa
The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth, and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. View quote
Tony Blair
Wealth and power are means to women; women are means to genetic eternity. View quote
Matt Ridley
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patriotism means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry. Moral stamina means more energy and more productivity, on the farm and in the factory. Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible--from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius of our scientists. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
With the increase of wealth the mania of covetousness increases. (John Cassian)
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth. View quote
Mario Puzo
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. View quote
Mark Cuban
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow. View quote
Paul Zane Pilzer
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis. View quote
Rana Dasgupta
In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it. View quote
Sally Wentworth
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. View quote
Stacy Schiff
The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth. View quote
Stuart Wilde
People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people! (Stuart Wilde)
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things. View quote
T. Harv Eker
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. View quote
Tom Felton
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture. View quote
Ferdinand Lassalle
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have. View quote
Philippa Gregory