Quotes About Wealth

I am rich, thank you very much. And you are excused for being shortsighted. It is Americans, you British, and all the other Westerners who think they know what's right and what's wrong, who make money from the sale of heroin and opium with one hand, and yet pay mullahs to preach that growing poppies is against the Koran with the other." He laughed. "Hypocrites all!

A bonnet costs twenty dollars, and implies a shawl and gown to match. A bonnet to one wife, with shawl and gown to match, implies the like to every other wife." The man paused, shook his head ruefully and concluded: "This taste for female finery is breaking up our Mormon homes. Brigham Young may soon be the only man in Salt Lake City rich enough to clothe a dozen wives."28

The white man knows how to make everything," he said, "but he does not know how to distribute it.

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30 000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

Thus says the LORD: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom, do not let the mighty boast in their might, do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth; but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the LORD; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the LORD. Jeremiah 9:23–24

The ultimate insanity is to so organize society that power, wealth, and information are concentrated in the hands of so few people that they have the power, for whatever reason, to put to death our species and the living earth as well. But so we have.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.

There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.

But when our internal reference point is our spirit, our actions are motivated by love, and there is no waste of energy. Our energy multiplies, and the surplus energy we gather can be channeled to create anything we want, including unlimited wealth. When we harness the power of harmony and love, we use our energy creatively for the experience of affluence and evolution.

There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. Moreover, success is a journey, not a destination. Material abundance, in all its expressions, happens to be one of those things that makes the journey more enjoyable. But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.

El éxito, la riqueza, la buena salud y las relaciones enriquecedoras son consecuencias de la felicidad, no su causa.

Quy lu?t cho ?i r?t ??n gi?n: N?u b?n mu?n có ni?m vui, hãy làm ng??i khác có ni?m vui. N?u tình yêu là ?i?u b?n ?ang ki?m tìm, hãy cho ?i yêu th??ng. N?u b?n khát khao s? sung túc v?t ch?t, hãy giúp ng??i khác tr? nên giàu có.

re-examine everything you think will get you ahead in life—money, possessions, status, accomplishments—and see them as a source of suffering

People with wealth consciousness settle only for the best. This is also called the principle of highest first.

The car was originally owned by a man who had made a fortune manufacturing bidis, the cheap cigarettes wrapped in the leaf of the ebony tree and tied at one end with a string.

La pobreza es sin duda una fuente de infelicidad, pero también lo es el dinero, ya que una vez que la gente tiene lo suficiente para asegurarse las necesidades básicas, el dinero extra no la hace más feliz; de hecho, la responsabilidad añadida, junto con el miedo a perderlo, a menudo tiene el efecto contrario.

What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul?

If we seized all the assets of the eighty-five wealthiest people in the world to make a fund to give annually to the poorest half, it would raise their spending power by less than 10 cents a day.

book of 2000 by Craig Gay (With Liberty and Justice for Whom?: The Recent Evangelical Debate over Capitalism), which showed that evangelical Christians on the left took wealth as given, manna, and "hence applied their Christian/Biblical principles only to the problem of (static) distribution, whereas the evangelicals on the right emphasized incentives to the ongoing creation of wealth, innovation, etc."8

Human capital is of course much more equally distributed than ownership of factories or ships. We own ourselves, even if we are poor in stocks and bonds. Focusing on financial wealth is therefore misleading.

The forces that will drive the whole world to become rich are temperate self-interest and temperate governance. As Adam Smith put it in 1755, "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.