Quotes and Sayings About Wealth
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.
-- Adam YauchSource : "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.
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Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
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Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
-- Adrian Rogers -
What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
-- Agatha Christie -
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
-- Ai Weiwei -
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For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.
-- Al Gore -
You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
-- Al Koran -
Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
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Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.
-- Alan Cohen -
Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
-- Alexander Pope -
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
-- Alexander Pope -
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall (1888). “The Economics of Industry”
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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall (1890). “Principles of Economics”
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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.
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No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
-- Alistair Begg -
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
-- Alistair Begg -
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
-- Anatole France