We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.
Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power
Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.
More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".
Spending creates more wealth for everybody.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.
Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions and even while they were Communist, they had the same idea about generating wealth - tear it out of the bowels of the earth. And now they have come out with the same idea in the end. . . you know, capitalism. But capitalism will fail, too.
Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.
He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.
Having money is just the best thing in the world.
Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.
I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.