Quotes About Wealth

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

The newly rich lost their balance and their stolidity, becoming as giddy and frivolous and aggressive as the worst.

All the ingredients were there: mechanization, innovation, property rights, and capital.

Colombia es hoy un país donde los pobres no pueden comer, la clase media no puede comprar y los ricos no pueden dormir.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

They note that the coherent arbitrariness of salaries is tacitly recognized in an old one-liner: A wealthy man is one who earns $100 more than his wife's sister's husband.

Smith argued that two conditions were necessary for labor to produce the maximum amount of wealth: perfect competition among sellers—everyone pursuing his or her selfish interest, the famous "invisible hand"—and the complete freedom of buyers to substitute one commodity for another.

Trees are green gold

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

My pride fell with my fortunes.