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Quotes About Wealth

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
~ Idries Shah
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
~ Johan Huizinga
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
~ William Shakespeare
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
~ James Madison
There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
~ Anthony D. Williams
The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
~ John Heywood
Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.
~ Louis O. Kelso
The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.
~ Henry George
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
~ Ben Elton
The closer we are to God, the richer we are
~ Radhe Maa
Money comes to those who act intelligently, and God to those who hunger for his grace
~ Radhe Maa
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.
~ Louis O. Kelso
The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.
~ Louis O. Kelso
The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.
~ Louis O. Kelso
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
In this world in search of wealth, Thou art, O Lord, the greatest jewel I have found. I sacrifice myself unto Thee." "In search of some one to love, Thou art the One Beloved I have found. I sacrifice myself unto Thee.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In enjoyment is the fear of disease, In high birth, the fear of losing caste, In wealth, the fear of tyrants, In honour, the fear of losing it, In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.
~ Swami Vivekananda
it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise. Now
~ Swami Vivekananda
Buddha gave up his throne and renounced his position, that was true renunciation; but there cannot be any question of renunciation in the case of a beggar who has nothing to renounce.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you.
~ Swordfish