Wealth Quotes - Page 17

• That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.

  Charles Babbage

  Education, Country, Science

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.1

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• Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Future, Science

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Sounds The Alarm Over Science Illiteracy, And For Good Reason" By David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2015.

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• The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Soul, Desire, Purpose

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• The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the great body of labourers in such a state of poverty and dependence, as would compel them to sell their labour to their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be sustained

  Lysander Spooner

  Mean, Land, Class

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• Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

  Adrian Rogers

  Contentment, Genuine

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• Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

  Curt Sachs

  Training, Overwhelming, Whole

  Curt Sachs (2008). “The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Parent, Usury

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.32, Aristotle

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• And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sleep, Names, Shade

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.856

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• By which I get my wealth--
  And very gladly will I drink
  Your Honour's noble health.

  Lewis Carroll

  Noble, Drink, Honour

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.

  John Holdren

  Design, Challenges, Essentials

  "White House Science Adviser Advocated 'De-Development' of the United States" by Christopher Neefus, www.cnsnews.com. July 28, 2009.

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• Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.

  Friedrich Engels

  Men, Political, Next

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels”

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• It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, New York, Hygiene

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.23, Verso

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• Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.  The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair.  I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics.  I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.  But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

  Bill Gates

  America, Land, Long

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• Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Boss, Courses

  Song: A Job Ain't Nuthin' But Work

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• Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Evil, World

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 348), 1974.

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• Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!

  Ravinder Singh

  Wine, World, Happens

  Ravinder Singh (2011). “Can Love Happen Twice?”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Children, Heart, Opportunity

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• Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Records, Magazines, Television

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Work, Progress, Comfort

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• If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Filled Up, Digging A Hole

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Sex, Technology, Men

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• Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Zero, Interesting, Environment

  "Homeless Billionaire Shuns 'Unsatisfying' Material Possessions Despite $5 Billion Worth" by Jim Gardner, www.christianpost.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

  Charlie Munger

  Progress, Size, Determine

  ""Here's a 10 point plan to invest like Charlie Munger" by John Szramiak". www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2016.

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• There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Mean, Men

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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