Wealth Quotes - Page 32

• It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

  Adam Yauch

  Happiness, Easy, Equal

  "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  War, Space, Civilization

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Growing, Liquid, Individual

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• With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

  Azim Premji

  Ambition, People, Way

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• I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

  Sean Parker

  Reality, Thinking, Perception

  "Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'" By Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

  Criss Jami

  Passion, Men, Romance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Parent, World, Contributing

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• .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Winter, Men

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is wealth to be content.

  Laozi

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• Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

  Frank Chodorov

  Art, Law, Society

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

  Rowan Williams

  Average, Littles, Poverty

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• Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

  Joyce Appleby

  Wealth Creation, Exploitation, Capitalist

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• We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Long, Pay

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.146, Crown Business

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• We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Class, Envy

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Exercise, Privilege, Rich

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.268

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• Doing things you're passionate about, with an intention of helping others, will make you an all around richer person.

  Daylle Deanna Schwartz

  Money, Helping Others, Passionate

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• There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Two, Needs

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• [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Fire, Volcanoes, Mind

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• Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Over You, Desire

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• No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

  Joy Davidman

  Enough, Consumerism, Overconsumption

  Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.120, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self, Forever, Republic

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Paul observed, We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out (1 Timothy 6:7). He was referring to material things, wealth. However, we will take our knowledge and experience and training from this life with us into the next life.

  David Berg

  Training, World, Next

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• Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Technology, Men

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• Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Would Be, Poverty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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