Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance.

That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

The No.1 thing people can do to increase their wealth is to start a part-time business.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.

Those fortunate to achieve great wealth should put it to work for the good of humanity.

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

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Being wealthy when no one else is, is like being the only one at the party with a drink.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!

Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

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