Top 1200 Material Wealth Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.

The only wealth you keep is the wealth that you give away.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

As long as we see America and her wealth as something that we want, we will never leave Pharaoh. As God's hand touched the wealth of Pharaoh, it is now touching the wealth of America. As the Black man and woman become more awakened to the wicked machinations of government, the aim is the same today: We should never be free of their influence and power.

If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government.

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.

The - the early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and - and remained personally very wealthy. Tatas were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They - they were involved in the business, but most of the family wealth is put into trust, and the family did not, in fact, enjoy enormous wealth.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

Your wealth is waiting for you in the invisible, and to bring it into the visible, think wealth!

A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation.

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

I believe that any society that allows the creation of legitimate wealth expects that the wealth be used for its benefit.

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, a part of the country with more than its share of fair skies, material wealth, and people who are trying not to be as old as they are.

Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value.

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

You see, there are many types of wealth and money is only one of them. I have different wealths, like the wealth of my health.

My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.

The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.

Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This deep-seated envy was ripe for exploitation - and the exploitation has been running rampant for generations.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.

I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.

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

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical and even anti-Christian cultural influences read the Bible as pointing to something not ultimate, such as material wealth, health, happiness, power, etc.