Wealth Quotes - Page 23

• There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Work, Race

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• It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Work, Blessing, Order

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• I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who have worked before me to learn, to develop, to create the foundations and wealth of this planet. It is my turn to contribute to the progress of humanity. I will be grateful for anything I am paid in return.

  Robert Muller

  Grateful, People, Parent

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• Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Want, Littles, Relative

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• It is wealth to be content.

  Laozi

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• You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, People, Choices

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• Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• What meaning do our lives have if we cannot set aside at least one hour a day out of 24 for thinking about God? Think how many hours we spend reading the newspaper, gossiping and doing various useless acts! Children we can definitely set aside an hour for sadhana if we really want it. That is our real wealth. If we cannot spare a whole hour at a stretch, keep apart half an hour in the morning and again in the evening.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Morning, Children, Real

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• Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not only for economic exploitation, but also as possible homes for man. . . . The goal for the solar system would seem to be that it should become an interplanetary community of very diverse worlds . . . . Through the pooling of this wealth of experience, through this 'commonwealth of worlds,' new levels of mental and spiritual development should become possible, levels at present quite inconceivable to man.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Home, Men

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Stupidity, Grandfather

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• But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, Leader

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voting, Income, Done

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• Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

  Aeschylus

  Wise, Men, Tears

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

  Lance Morrow

  Country, Work, Ethics

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• Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

  Michael Nesmith

  Differences, Dollars, Ends

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser.

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Opportunity, Order, Effort

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• As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

  Stephen Bayley

  Art, Communication, Technology

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

  Terry Eagleton

  Responsibility, Media, Life Is

  "Leveson inquiry: the frontiers of privacy" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

  David Korten

  Claims

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• Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

  James Fenton

  Drama, Littles, Poetic

  "A licence for drama" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2002.

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• The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

  Humphry Davy

  Country, Independent, Exercise

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.150

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• The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

  Charles J. Givens

  Frustration, Past, Goal

  Charles J. Givens (1991). “More Wealth Without Risk: How to Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb”

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• Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

  Gary Zukav

  Real, Winning, Needs

  "Super Soul Sunday: The Real Deal" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

  Rita Coolidge

  Player, Different, Information

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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