Financial Wealth Quotes

#1. Research by James Poterba at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that the wealth of the U.S.'s elderly is highly skewed. About half of retirees have little or no financial wealth when they retire and depend almost entirely on Social Security for their income.

Greg Ip

#2. The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#3. The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.

Adam LaVorgna

#4. The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.

Ralph Nader

#5. While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

Shakti Gawain

#6. Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Sydney Madwed

#7. When we utilize our gift, the universe thanks us by giving us an abundance of riches - from abundant opportunities to good health to financial wealth.

Steve Harvey

#8. It does not matter if you are asking for health, for happiness, for financial wealth, or for all three. It doesn't matter if you have no idea how this will come to you. Neither does it matter if you have no reason to expect it to.

Stephen Richards

#9. He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Pico Iyer

#11. When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

Harry Browne

#12. The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe.

Avro Manhattan

#13. For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule.

T.F. Hodge

#14. If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.

T. Harv Eker

#15. People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.

Jean Chatzky

#16. Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.

Jennifer Granholm

#17. For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

Jeff Merkley

#18. If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

Bill Gross

#19. If there was a spectre haunting France in the 1780's, it was not that of revolution but that of state bankruptcy. The whole social and political structure of France stood in the way of tapping the wealth of the better-off, the only sure way of emerging from the financial impasse.

J.M. Roberts

#20. As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

Lewis H. Lapham

#21. It's not about judging you, it's about changing your point of view.

Simone Milasas

#22. Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.

Stephen R. Covey

#23. Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

Tony Robbins

#24. Since 2008, no high-ranking executive from any financial institution has gone to jail, not one, for any of the systemic crimes that wiped out 40 percent of the world's wealth.

Matt Taibbi

#25. I believe it is time for Americans to re-adopt a simpler and healthier American dream, a dream in which we seek financial stability rather than wealth creation. But

Erik Wecks

#26. Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth.

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit ... DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.

Brandi L. Bates

#28. Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

Anita Roddick

#29. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Suze Orman

#30. A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits.

Mariette Hartley

#31. wealth in the rich countries is currently divided into two approximately equal (or comparable) parts: real estate and financial assets.

Thomas Piketty

#32. If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#33. God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus.

Joseph Murphy

#34. Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?

Pietros Maneos

#35. [A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions ... the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013

Janet Yellen

#36. In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.

Dale T. Mortensen

#37. How prudently we relate to our work determines whether we will be raised to a higher level of financial prosperity or not

Sunday Adelaja

#38. Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could only get better.

Nick Harkaway

#39. ... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#40. Housing is the favorite investment of the middle class and moderately well-to-do, but true wealth always consists primarily of financial and business assets.

Thomas Piketty

#41. To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.

Brian Tracy

#42. If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly qualified, and highly experienced people who just manage to scrape by, if at all.

Stephen Richards

#43. Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Billy Graham

#44. The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#45. The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability to convert earned income into passive and/or portfolio income.

Robert T. Kiyosaki