Wealth Quotes - Page 20

• I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred to themselves, rather than with social cost efficiency. Logically, this would mean that democratic government would be inefficient in reducing social costs.

  Gordon Tullock

  Believe, Mean, Government

  Gordon Tullock, Charles Kershaw Rowley (2005). “The economics of politics”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Charity

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• If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Dream, Men, Progress

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• Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Honor, Literature

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• Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

  Horace

  Greed, Care, Fortune

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

  Horace

  Names, Heaven, Earth

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Luxury, Doe

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• Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  World, Claims, Involvement

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.400, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Time, Clock, Parody

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.412, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Color, Poet

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• ... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, People, Sake

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Disappointment, Loss, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fool, Sides, Rich

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• We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

  John W. Gardner

  Community, Finals, Garbage

  1969 In the NewYork Times, 9 Oct.

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• Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Grief, Despair, Misery

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• Real wealth comes to the person who learns that we are paid best for the things we do for nothing.

  John Wooden

  Real, Persons, Paid

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• Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run.

  Andrew Ng

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

  Johan Norberg

  Cherish, Proof, Profit

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• We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Generosity, Weakness

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Play

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 28, 1973.

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• The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

  Plato

  Children, Parent, Use

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas

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• Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Wall, Silence, House

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• Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Errors, Mind, Needs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.450

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• Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Heaven, Know Me

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'The Vagabond'

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