The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.
Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity. And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?
To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have.
Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.
The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.
Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.
True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.
The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Palestinians have no wealth or power.
Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.