Wealth Quotes - page 4

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. (Herman Wouk)
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. View quote
Robert Collier
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. View quote
Edward Young
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. View quote
Christopher Columbus
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
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. View quote
George Bancroft
The safest wealth is the poverty of needs. View quote
Franz Werfel
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung. View quote
Walter Scott
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. (Jean Cocteau)
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. View quote
Guru Nanak Dev
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
All wealth is the product of labor. View quote
John Locke
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. View quote
John Heywood
Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted. View quote
Sun Tzu
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation. View quote
Vitruvius
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. View quote
Martin Seligman
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security. View quote
Suze Orman
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals. (Helen Fielding)
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. View quote
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. View quote
Claude M. Bristol
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. View quote
Wendell Willkie
Networking is an essential part of building wealth. View quote
Armstrong Williams