Top 100 Great Wealth Quotes
#1. In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.
Adam Smith
#2. There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth ... Architecture aims at Eternity.
Christopher Wren
#4. I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
Bill Gates
#5. Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol
#6. Wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.
Akinari Ueda
#7. Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements
Mark Victor Hansen
#8. The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money ... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
#9. With the birth of the babe in Bethlehem, there emerged a great endowment - a power stronger than weapons, a wealth more lasting than the coins of Caesar. This child was to become the King of kings and Lord of lords, the promised Messiah - Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Thomas S. Monson
#10. Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
Seth Godin
#11. The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.
John Burdett
#12. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.
Walter E. Williams
#13. Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.
Arnold Bennett
#14. There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
Jack Layton
#15. We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.
T. J. Stiles
#16. For the country was so rejoiced at the death of the giants, and so many of their lost friends had been restored to the nobility and men of wealth, that the gladness surpassed the grief. "Ye have indeed left your lives to your people, my great brothers!
George MacDonald
#17. Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush Limbaugh
#18. Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Haile Selassie
#19. A great lady(Queen Elizabeth )of England , on her dying bed cried out ,"call time again , call time again; a world of wealth for an inch of time !"but time past was never nor could never be recalled.
Thomas Brooks
#20. Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.
Joan Aiken
#21. When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.
Winston Churchill
#22. Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.
Eckhart Tolle
#23. Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
James D. Watson
#24. Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
Leo Tolstoy
#25. In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.
Albert Einstein
#26. Great is Youth
equally great is Old Age
great are Day and Night.
Great is Wealth
great is Poverty
great is Expression-great is Silence.
Walt Whitman
#27. 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.
Epictetus
#28. If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
John Milton
#29. Great wealth is often created by the launching of great surprises, not by the launching of great enterprises.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#30. The arrogance of wealth and the dejection of wretchedness, capital cities of unwonted extent, a lax morality, a vulgar egotism, and a great confusion of interests, are the dangers which almost invariably arise from the magnitude of States.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#31. 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.
Martin Seligman
#32. Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
P. J. O'Rourke
#33. A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.
Thomas Paine
#35. I could only think one troubling thought: the police, the state, did the bidding of the holders of great wealth. How much freedom of speech and freedom of assembly you had depended on what class you were in.
Howard Zinn
#36. Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#37. No matter how great your wealth of knowledge may be, it is still insufficient
Sunday Adelaja
#38. I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
Catherine Helen Spence
#39. All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great display of it.
Stefan Zweig
#40. Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they have vast populations, but, the real wealth, real greatnesss is virtue which earns the Grace of God.
Sathya Sai Baba
#41. A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
William, Saroyan
#43. The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
Leland Stanford
#44. Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#45. As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
Kabir
#46. Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.
June Allyson
#47. One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
Solomon
#48. Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.
Ron Paul
#50. If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.
Robert Kiyosaki
#51. If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest
Sunday Adelaja
#52. It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Lucretius
#53. It doesn't take great wealth or social influence to be faithful, but it does take obedience and endurance.
Billy Graham
#54. the most dangerous members of the criminal class - the criminals of great wealth.
Edmund Morris
#55. Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.
Brandi L. Bates
#56. Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.
Pythagoras
#57. Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance.
Robert Kiyosaki
#59. Your mind contains great capital.
Your heart contains extraordinary riches.
Your soul contains remarkable treasure.
Your life contains marvelous wealth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
Donald G. Mitchell
#61. Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who orders it properly.
Seneca.
#62. If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus
#63. Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
Mitch Daniels
#64. The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
Charles Caleb Colton
#65. Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus
#66. I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#67. In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
C. Wright Mills
#68. In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
A.J.P. Taylor
#69. Eve: "What do you want?"
Nadine: "A man of amazing sexual prowess, great sensitivity, stupendous abs, and the face of an angel. Toss in a wicked sense of humor and stupendous wealth, who adores the very ground I walk on. Oh wait, you already have him.
J.D. Robb
#70. You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.
Richard J. Foster
#71. The wealth of time is greater than the wealth of money
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
Alice Morse Earle
#73. When I originally sold X-Men it was because I knew there was 40 years of stories. That was the point! Not only to do the movie and establish the characters, you know, you love the one you're doing. It was because there are all these great stories, what a wealth of drama.
Lauren Shuler Donner
#74. The spectacle of this lovely nation, with its great agricultural wealth and its cultural riches , continually stepping on its own toes, made me wonder if France suffered a kind of national neurosis
Julia Child
#75. Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.
Will Self
#76. I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
Matt Damon
#77. Their incredible determination creates the need for nonlinear thinking, combined with boundless energy. Champions also earn money in nonlinear ways. While the masses essentially trade their time for money, the great ones realize this is probably the worst way to acquire wealth. Using
Steve Siebold
#79. It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many.
Joe Abercrombie
#80. The man who would prefer great wealth or strength more than love, more than friends, is diseased of soul.
Euripides
#81. Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Francis Bacon
#82. Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
George William Norris
#84. Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.
Ted Cruz
#85. You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.
Jane Austen
#86. Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
Lawrence Durrell
#87. A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!
Zelig Pliskin
#89. The Americans' great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.
Geoffrey Wood
#90. There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?
Paul Weller
#91. Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
Xenophon
#92. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#93. I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.
Winona Ryder
#94. Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
Sophocles
#95. 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
#96. It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people ...
Victoria Woodhull
#97. Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
Mark Twain
#98. Great is language ... it is the mightiest of the sciences,
It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth ... and of men and women ... and of all qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth ... it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.
Walt Whitman
#99. In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
Mark Levin
#100. Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color
John F. Kennedy
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