Wealth Quotes - page 15

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters. (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. View quote
Albion Woodbury Small
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. View quote
Ali Akbar Khan
Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil. View quote
Allan Savory
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. View quote
Andrew Young
With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that. View quote
Arpad Busson
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it. View quote
Azim Premji
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many. View quote
Bob Brown
People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before. View quote
Brenda Blethyn
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man. View quote
Bruno Rossi
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. (Clint Black)
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth. View quote
David Korten
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional. View quote
Donald Berwick
The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price. View quote
Dan Miller
There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody. View quote
Dane DeHaan
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. View quote
Eric Alterman
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. View quote
Edward Cocker
We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel. View quote
Frank Carlucci
When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used. View quote
Goodluck Jonathan
We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor. (Goodluck Jonathan)
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. View quote
Gene Tierney
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites. View quote
George A. Smith
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change. View quote
George Ayittey
If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work. View quote
George Eastman