Best 3460 quotes in «wealth quotes» category

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Not valuing wealth prevents theft.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S. foreign policy, you are really getting at the center of a society that is very fearful of that kind of critique.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.

One's strongest asset is simultaneously his point of strongest vulnerability.

One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight of the conditions and institution s that are necessary to create wealth and income in the first place.

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

Only stupid questions create wealth.

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

On inequality, I contend that far too much of the nation's wealth and income is gravitating to too few. This undermines the democracy we all cherish and the overall social cohesion necessary to maintain our wonderfully successful society.

Our health care is rationed by wealth.

Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.