Wealth Quotes - page 14

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't. (Shari Arison)
Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them. View quote
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth. View quote
Glenn Close
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation. View quote
James Rickards
In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth. View quote
James Surowiecki
Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world. View quote
Jane Smiley
Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. View quote
George S. Clason
Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor. View quote
Julie Garwood
The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think. View quote
Don Tapscott
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads. (Katharine Susannah Prichard)
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. View quote
Anita Roddick
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. View quote
Riccardo Muti
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science. View quote
Derek Barton
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money. View quote
Bo Bennett
The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment. View quote
Wendell Berry
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival. View quote
Gerard O'Neill
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. View quote
William Petty
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves. View quote
William Petty
It is to labour... and to labour only, that man owes every thing possessed of exchangeable value. Labour is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage - that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields... Labour tho that has covered the earth with cities and the ocean with ships - of wealth that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism. (John Ramsay McCulloch)
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. View quote
Helen Reddy
We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them. View quote
Richard Pipes
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism. View quote
Richard T. Ely
Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling. View quote
Frank Chodorov