Best 3460 quotes in «wealth quotes» category

I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

It says anybody can make it, because we're all on a level playing field. But we're not on a level playing field. That 's precisely the point, and that's what the rich don't want to look at. They don't want to recognize that they're not producing wealth at all. They're hoarding wealth. That's different.

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.

It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

I want to bring wealth back to our country so we can afford them.

I was right - Barack Obama's primary objective is to return the nation's wealth to it's rightful owners. This guy comes, if you look at some of his czars, for example, this Mark Lloyd guy.

I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured.

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.