Quotes About Wealth

Don't look for it in externals; it isn't in the body, and, if you doubt me, just look at Myron or Ophellius. It isn't in wealth, look at Croesus, or look at the rich of today: you'll see how unhappy they are.

None of those who have been raised to a loftier height by riches and honours is really great.

But I'll get money, and then share it." If you can acquire riches without losing your honor and self-respect, then do it. But if you lose what is dearest to you, no amount of money can make up for it.

Loss and sorrow are only possible with respect to things we own.

If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way. Whenever distress or displeasure arises in your mind, remind yourself, "This is only my interpretation, not reality itself." Then ask whether it falls within or outside your sphere of power. And, if it is beyond your power to control, let it go.

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness. If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way.

It is no light thing, said he, to endure poverty uncomplainingly; and a difficult thing to bear wealth without becoming arrogant.

Lead us, O Maruts, towards greater wealth, and out of tribulations, when you have been praised. O worshipful Maruts, accept our offering, and let us be lords of treasures!

It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.

Another English revolution by the rich occurred at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was the Industrial Revolution. The breathtaking potentialities of mechanization set the minds of manufacturers and merchants on fire. They began a revolution "as extreme and radical as ever inflamed the minds of sectarians,"8 and in a relatively short time these respectable, Godfearing citizens changed the face of England beyond recognition. When

Si estas décadas demostraron algo, fue que el principal problema del mundo, y por su puesto del mundo desarrollado, no era cómo multiplicar la riqueza de las naciones, sino cómo distribuirla en beneficio de sus habitantes

In America the rich man's objective never will be to make the poor man rich.

Which is why, from the Inca Empire to the Soviet Union, extractive societies have been prone to collapse. Power naturally flows to the top. We've established that. But where power flows to the top and stays there, without correction or recirculation, a society is likely to die a catastrophic death.

The free market, in its widest libertarian sense including all un-coerced activity whether trade or gift, can produce perpetually increasing software wealth for everyone.

Today approximately three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States.

Public lotteries are essentially regressive taxes imposed on the poor.

filled her memory bank with shiny coins.

Si tu vois ni ordures ni poubelles, c'est très riche.Si tu vois des poubelles e pas d'ordures,c'est riche.Si tu vois des ordures à côté des poubelles,c'est ni riche,ni pauvre,c'est touristique.Si tu vois les ordures sans les poubelles,c'est pauvre. Et si les gens habitent dans les ordures c'est très très pauvre.Ici c'est riche!...Mais oui,c'est la Suisse!

M'sieur Ibrahim, quand je dis que c'est un truc de gens riches, le sourire, je veux dire que c'est un truc pour les gens heureux. - Eh bien, c'est là que tu te trompes. C'est sourire, qui rend heureux. [- M. Ibrahim, when I say a smile is a rich people thing, I mean it's a happy people thing. - Well, that's where you're wrong. Smiling is what makes you happy.]

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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

In the sphere of material things giving means being rich. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.