When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.
The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.
I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
Consumption never creates wealth.
Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.
Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.
The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
Time is valuable, and when it is gone, it is gone. Time is wealth, and unlike money, when it is gone, you cannot replace it
We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine gave them security, wealth, honours, and revenge; and the support of the orthodox faith was considered as the most sacred and important duty of the civil magistrate. The edict of Milan, the great charter of toleration, had confirmed to each individual of the Roman world the privilege of choosing and professing his own religion.
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.