Quotes About Wealth

But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

We Progressives believe that the people have the right and the duty to protect themselves and their own welfare; that human rights are supreme over all other rights; that wealth should be the servant, not the master, of the people. We believe that if representative government does not absolutely represent the people it is not representative government at all.

That is why I decline to recognize the mere multimillionaire, the man of mere wealth, as an asset of value to any country; and especially as not an asset to my own country. If he has earned or uses his wealth in a way that makes him a real benefit, of real use- and such is often the case- why, then he does become an asset of real worth.

The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than owning material things. I also see art as something people will do rather than consume, and do it as a natural part of their lives; creative endeavors are a form of profound spiritual satisfaction.

Live long and prosper

Ekonomik geliÅŸme, refah ürettiÄŸi kadar sefalet de doÄŸurmuÅŸtur her zaman. Ä°nsanlar?n çoÄŸunluÄŸunun yoksul olmad??? dönem ne zamand?? Baz?lar? eskisinden daha az yoksul hale gelse de sefaleti bitirmeye yönelik tüm giriÅŸimler baÅŸar?s?z kald?. Para icat oldu olal? hiçbir zaman herkesin istediÄŸini veya ihtiyaç duyduÄŸunu almas?na yetecek kadar olmad?. Yeterince para hiçbir zaman var olamaz.

Yaln?zca zenginliÄŸinizi nas?l kullanaca??n?z? bildiÄŸinizde gerçekten zengindiniz. Zengin olmak demek, parayla olduÄŸu kadar hayatla da ne yapaca??n? bilmek demekti, yaln?zca para kazanmak deÄŸildi.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth.

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

Y así, no cualquier cosa alcanzada o multiplicada exteriormente aprovecha; sino más bien la despreciada y desarraigada del corazón. No entiendas eso solamente de las posesiones y de las riquezas; sino también de la ambición de la honra, y deseo de vanas alabanzas, todo lo cual pasa con el mundo.

Then may he be truly poor and naked in spirit, and be able to say with the Prophet, As for me, I am poor and needy.(2) Nevertheless, no man is richer than he, no man stronger, no man freer. For he knoweth both how to give up himself and all things, and how to be lowly in his own eyes. (1) Luke xvii. 10. (2) Psalm xxv. 16.

2. Boast not thyself in thy riches if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they be powerful, but in God, who giveth all things,

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): "Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.

The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than to die rich

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes. The commerce of the living is not to be transferred unto the dead; it is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose, and no man is wronged where no man is possessor.

I consistently found the pacifist dream intimately connected with the dream of wealth redistribution. My fellow dreamers and I thought we had better ideas than did the masses we imagined we were protecting. In our hubris we thought we were embodying great intelligence and common sense that surpassed all traditional ideas.