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Wealth Quotes (page 20)

Herbert Simon quote: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. Herbert Simon
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion. Eduardo Galeano
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles."(Young India, 22 October 1925) Mahatma Gandhi
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. Alexander Dumas
Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions to create a ground of upsets both collective and individual in the midst of which a path can be opened while we remain in the dark about many circumstances both historical and geographical. I clear my path through the wealth of details that cover the void I do not want to notice and I advance impetuously... Italo Calvino
What difference does it make how much is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already? You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "All true wealth is biological (Aral Vorkosigan)"
All true wealth is biological (Aral Vorkosigan) Lois McMaster Bujold
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away. Charles Spurgeon
Plato quote: "both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued..."
...both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well. Plato
Thomas Jefferson quote: "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and..."
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson
You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.- Every one admits that.- Your Socialists don't.- My Socialists do. Yours mayn't; but I strongly suspect yours of being not Socialists, but ninepins, which you have constructed for your own amusement. I can't imagine any living creature who would bowl over quite so easily. E. M. Forster
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not..."
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. Henry David Thoreau
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servant? quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things. Baruch Spinoza
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. Terry Prachett

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