Quotes About Wealth

Ceux qui, espérant le bonheur, n'ont soif que de plaisirs, de richesses, de gloire, de pouvoir et d'héroïsme, sont aussi naïfs que l'enfant qui cherche à attraper un arc-en-ciel pour s'en faire un manteau.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. —PLUTARCH I

Tant de choses essentielles au bonheur n'ont rien à voir avec des transactions économiques.

On the Day of Judgment, no step shall a man stir until he has answered questions on five aspects of his wordly existence: his life and how he spent it; his knowledge and what use he has made of it; his wealth, how he acquired it and how he has spent it; and his body and how he has utilized it. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU HURAYRAH.

Abstain from luxuries, for those who live luxurious lives are no servants of God.' HADITH OF AHMAD IBN HANBAL.

Following the rule of abstinence from worldly things does not mean that what is normally permitted becomes prohibited or that wealth should be allowed to go to waste. On the contrary, such abstinence means that you should place greater reliance on what God intends for you than on what you have in hand yourself. And when misfortune strikes, you should relish its continuance for the reward this will bring. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU DHARR AL-GHIFARI.

Mr. Kilt, editor of the Ottawa Citizen, in October of last year. Listen to this. 'What hope is there for a society with such extremes of wealth and poverty as our civilization shows? At the bottom rotting, corroding want and squalor; at the top, enervating luxury, reckless extravagance, useless purposeless lives.

Men who love power are not only dominated, as is generally supposed, by an appetite for wealth and honours. Above all they are influenced by an objective taste for the creation of events, for controlling their occurrence, for acting upon the world with effectiveness and for being always in the right. Wealth and honours are no more than the signs and tools of their influence.

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe

La oferta y el surgimiento del capitalismo del bienestar

Since the baby boomer generation, the middle-income group has grown smaller with each successive generation

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

Where 'doing one's job' cannot be directly linked to the highest spiritual and cultural values--although it may be felt to be more than mere economic coercion--the individual today usually makes no attempt to find any meaning in it. Where capitalism is at its most unbridled, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth, divested of its metaphysical significance, today tends to be associated with purely elemental passions, which at times virtually turn it into a sporting contest.

A number of those sections of the old Empire which were most highly developed economically and most favored by natural resources and situation, in particular a majority of the wealthy towns went over to Protestantism in the sixteenth century The results of that circumstance favor the Protestants even today in their strug gle for economic existence.

Wealth is thus bad ethically only in so far as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care. But

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.

There are no wizards and no spells. Just men and women and money and the earth the way it always was.

You can be happier," I said, "by not adding your own opinion to the facts. It is a fact that you lost $200,000. It is your opinion that you are ruined and disgraced.

Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha

Countries that quit producing real products, spend more than they produce, lag in education, burden their middle class with higher taxes, and continue to import billions from other countries, bail out failed businesses and reward bad behavior instead of investing in good businesses, will eventually lose their leadership and wealth

Money takes care of those who take care of money. Invest it with care and it will take care of you.

The adage that knowledge is power is true. In the world of financial markets and investments, knowledge is the ultimate power. Educate yourself before you invest, if you know something that others don't, you will make a lot of money

The challenge is that CEOs now think like global investors, while the political leadership thinks like local civil servants. Getting the right policies to attract and develop talented labor, capital and diversify the income sources will determine the prosperity and wealth of the people of each nation.