Quotes About Acquiring Wealth

#1. They spend their time acquiring wisdom, acquiring wealth, or contributing to society. The problem is that many people act like they will live forever on earth and waste away their time in worthless pursuits. For example, try to imagine - what would you do if you only had one month to live?

H.W. Charles

#2. The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed.

Neal Stephenson

#4. Focusing attention in acquiring wealth while visualizing it, combined with actions related to having it, such as recognizing what we need to learn about it, attracts wealth.

Daniel Marques

#5. If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire for wealth arises within you, wealth will not arise around you. Having definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition.

John Frederick Demartini

#6. Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!

Jane Austen

#7. But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.

M. Russell Ballard

#8. I LOVE YOU
Don't just 'think' it. Say it before it's too late - The burden of regret is a heavy cross to bear

Kamil Ali

#9. I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

John Corbett

#10. In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

Hesiod

#11. When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

Jonathan Edwards

#12. I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.

Michael Heisley

#13. Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

H. Rider Haggard

#14. The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

Edmund Phelps

#15. There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge .

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#16. I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

Joaquin Phoenix

#18. The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

Ron Paul

#19. The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

Morris L. Ernst

#20. I love you," he said.
"I love you too, for all the good it does." She sounded bitter. Angry. Not at him, but at the universe.

Michael Grant

#21. Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Marcus Tullius Cicero