Wealth Quotes (page 2)

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• should
• seize
• seizing

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. Hesiod

• heart
• humanity
• equality

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Theodore Parker

• earnings
• industrialization
• saved

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. John Tyler

• life
• experience
• ability

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau

• drinking
• true
• becoming

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer

• military
• victory
• rhetorical

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana

• hiding
• hides
• conspicuously

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. James Reston

• thinking
• manly
• productively

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Ayn Rand

• end
• different
• pointe

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite. Michael Nesmith

• fighting
• manly
• god

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. Oscar Wilde

• respect
• she
• value

You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth."Her wealth," Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: "Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value... Ursula K. Le Guin

• greatness
• powerful
• winning

The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth.... H. G. Wells

• wonder
• helpful
• good

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves. Rush Limbaugh

• god
• lost
• history

Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world. H. G. Wells

• great
• evening
• greatness

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth. Vilfredo Pareto