Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EpictetusTags: money happiness wealth contentment
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Zig ZiglarTags: intelligence success wealth
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
Eugene V. DebsTags: wealth justice capitalism inequality poverty labor feudalism aristocracy
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
PlatoThe ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Fidel CastroTags: wealth war weapons ignorance oppression poverty illness hunger weapons-of-mass-destruction
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
Steve MartinTags: wealth insignificance
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
Henry David ThoreauTags: education knowledge wealth books-reading enlightenment treasures heritage
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
Jane AustenBen Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.
Tags: inspirational wealth ethics business benjamin-franklin franklin ben-franklin
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
Oprah WinfreyTags: wealth
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