Quotes About Wealth

As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.

Money is not the wealth of a nation, but production is wealth; so ordered production is the main object for humanity. But to have the maximum of production, it is necessary to have production put on a sound basis. No mere preaching of brotherly love, or class hatred, will produce one single brick for the building of the future temple of human victory—the temple of human civilization. Ordered production demands analysis of basic facts.

and several gold sovereigns and threw them into the snow at his feet.

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

God is the unlimited conceptual realization of the absolute wealth of potentiality.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime, and have fostered the growth of so much sordid feeling and so many fierce passions, that it may well be questioned, whether the mental and moral status of our population has not on the average been lowered, and whether the evil has not overbalanced the good.

A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.

Contentment is the capital which will never diminish.

Avarice is disgrace; cowardice is a defect; poverty often disables an intelligent man from arguing his case; a poor man is a stranger in his own town; misfortune and helplessness are calamities; patience is a kind of bravery; to sever attachments with the wicked world is the greatest wealth; piety is the best weapon of defence.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

O son of Adam, if you have collected anything in excess of your actual need, you will act only as its trustee for someone else to use it.

Wealth is the fountain head of passions.

Defend your faith (in God) with the help of charity. Protect your wealth with the aid of Zakat. Let the prayers guard you from calamities and disasters.

To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

no matter whether the individual motivations and behaviour of ordinary white people were racist or not, all whites benefited from social structures and organizational patterns that continually disadvantaged blacks, while allowing whites to stay well ahead in living standards, including housing, health and life span, neighbourhood amenities and safety, educational facilities and achievement, level of employment, and income and wealth.

he's always being told how lucky he is to have in a world where so many have so little

Christmas is probably too bourgeois.

With a burro to ride and a burro to drive, There is hardly a man so rich alive.