Quotes on Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

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

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.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

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.

If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.

William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.