c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was based on race, for most of the thousands of years in which slavery existed around the world, it was based on whoever was vulnerable to enslavement and within striking distance. Thus Europeans enslaved other Europeans, just as Asians enslaved other Asians and Africans enslaved other Africans, while Polynesians enslaved other Polynesians and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere enslaved other indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The very word “slave" derived from the word for Slavs, who were enslaved by fellow Europeans for centuries before Africans began to be brought in chains to the Western Hemisphere. Africans were not singled out by a race for ownership by Europeans, they were resorted to after the rise of nation-states with armies and navies in other parts of the world which reduced the number of places that could be raided for slaves without great costs and risks. Slave-raiding continued in Africa, primarily by Africans enslaving other Africans and then, in West Africa, selling some of their slaves to whites to take to the Western Hemisphere. Meanwhile, the growing range of ships and the growing wealth of nations eventually made economically feasible the transportation of vast numbers of slaves from one continent to another, creating racial differences between the enslaved and their owners as a dominant pattern in the Western Hemisphere. Such a pattern was by no means limited to Europeans owning non-Europeans, however. There were many examples of the reverse, quite aside from vast regions of the earth where neither the slaves nor their owners were either black or white.
— Thomas Sowell
If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.
— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others." —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2
— Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Wisdom
Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death
— T.S. Eliot
We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse!
— Adriano Bulla, New Age Spirit
Oh, it was an artful place--it must make people who have money want to spend it madly!
— Dodie Smith
Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.
— Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe
For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.
— Sunday Adelaja
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation
— Sunday Adelaja
If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources.
— Sunday Adelaja
As a nation, develop your wealth of virtues and watch yourself live better than most countries who brag themselves in their virtues of natural wealth
— Sunday Adelaja
The citizens of the land, the peoples of the nation must be made strong in their convictions of these values. These values and virtues must become the wealth of the people, they must become their pride. They must be reflected in their lifestyle, in their film and movie industries. This value system must be ingrained in their educational system. They must be proclaimed in their pulpits. Homes and families must be built on the wealth of these virtues.
— Sunday Adelaja
The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation
— Sunday Adelaja
Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty.
— Sunday Adelaja
Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation
— Sunday Adelaja
The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources.
— Sunday Adelaja
Our people must once again realize that it is only hard work and excellence that leads to wealth creation.
— Sunday Adelaja
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.
— Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given.
— Sunday Adelaja
Work therefore is designed to release all this abundance of wealth hidden inside everything.
— Sunday Adelaja
Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time.
— Sunday Adelaja
Time is the ultimate wealth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources.
— Sunday Adelaja
The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth.
— Sunday Adelaja
We are all endowed with wealth of time equally
— Sunday Adelaja
The wealth God has given to everyman is the wealth of TIME.
— Sunday Adelaja
So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine Providence
— Sunday Adelaja
Time is exactly the amount of wealth God gives to each and every one of us on a daily basis
— Sunday Adelaja
The few people who work earnestly are those who want to accumulate wealth. They are born with exceptional ability and a drive to reach the top. Even if they life as a worker, they become very wealthy. Had their needs been met at the beginning, they would never have acquired the capacity for hard work and commitment. Why is it that rich men's children fail within two or three generations?
— මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ, Yuganthaya
I guess I wouldn't want to be rich. you'd never be sure if people liked you for what you were or what you had.--Tellie
— Diana Palmer, Heartbreaker
When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
I wish I could fly.I wish I were rich.I wish I had more time.”“But you can, and you are, and you do; I wish you would open your eyes.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Perhaps the answer is that it is necessary to slow down, finally giving up on economistic fanaticism and collectively rethink the true meaning of the word “wealth.” Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone’s reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone’s life, the very foundations of capitalism, would start to crumble (p. 169).
— Franco Bifo Berardi
To misuse wealth is a great fault.
— Dada Bhagwan
We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake.
— Sunday Adelaja
...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?
— Bertrand Russell
Many crores of rupees are squandered in this country by way offering gratitude to God and bribing Him to gain greater and greater wealth.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the difference of fortune makes less difference in happiness than is vulgarly imagined; such a one does not measure out degrees of esteem according to the rent-rolls of his acquaintance. He may, indeed, externally pay a superior deference to the great lord above the vassal; because riches are the most convenient, being the most fixed and determinate, source of distinction. But his internal sentiments are more regulated by the personal characters of men, than by the accidental and capricious favours of fortune.
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.
— Beau Sides, Unseen Tears: The Challenges of Orphans and Orphanages in China
Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.
— Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.
— Mark Nepo
Never gamble with your life because there is no wealth without life, but where there is life, there is always hope for wealth.
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear
—  Robes and furred gowns hide all.
What’s wealth but the means of expanding one’s life? There’s two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.
— Sunday Adelaja
I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
You could buy a company of people with your wealth, but would never succeed in purchasing their love.
I'm not crazy when I replace everything that people consider as a stability, safety and wealth with the right to think of the moment I had spent with you.  
— jihad eltabey
Focus means being diligent. Diligence always leads to wealth.
— Sunday Adelaja
People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.
— Timothy Ferriss
We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.
— William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
The job of the politician is to speak for all people; not just for parties with vested interests, or organisations with the biggest wallets. The first people a politician should protect are those that cannot protect themselves: Those weakest and most vulnerable among us. This is, to most of us, something that seems to be an obvious statement of fact, and that may be so, but it’s also a forgotten fact. Now, today, the opposite is true. It should shame us all. It shames me. The very fact that the most poor and the most vulnerable in our society are those that are victimised and stamped upon, whereas the most wealthy and the most influential are making more profits and acquiring more assets and wealth than ever before in history, is a damning indictment of what our society has become.
— Paul Howlsey
Once you achieve self intimacy & self-connection, success, peace & wealth is not far from you.
— Vishwas Chavan
The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy.
— Debasish Mridha
Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others.
— J.R. Rim
All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright
— David McCullough
Wealth can only be multiplied through work.
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to get wealth, knowledge is needed.
— Sunday Adelaja
You should not strive for your own personal wealth but for the prosperity of the Kingdom ofGod.
— Sunday Adelaja
The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving.
— Sunday Adelaja
The wealth that we acquire with God’s help will not become a source of tears if it belongs to God.
— Sunday Adelaja
What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.
— Josephine Tey
Brigham, the greatest and certainly the most able economist and administrator and businessman this nation has ever seen, didn't give a hoot for earthly things: 'I have never walked across the streets to make a trade.' He didn't mean that literally. You always do have to handle things. But in what spirit do we do it? Not the Krishna way, by renunciation, for example... If you refuse to be concerned with these things at all, and say, "I'm above all that," that's as great a fault. The things of the world have got to be administered; they must be taken care of, they are to be considered. We have to keep things clean, and in order. That's required of us. This is a test by which we are being proven. This is the way by which we prepare, always showing that these things will never captivate our hearts, that they will never become our principle concern. That takes a bit of doing, and that is why we have the formula 'with an eye single to his glory.' Keep first your eye on the star, then on all the other considerations of the ship. You will have all sorts of problems on the ship, but unless you steer by the star, forget the ship. Sink it. You won't go anywhere.
— Hugh Nibley
I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?
— Steve Jobs
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.
— Auliq Ice
Today is filled with solutions, be positive and enthusiastic at ALL times. Why worry or live in fear, it will probably never happen!
— Ron Barrow
They had paused before the table on which the bride’s jewel were displayed, and Lily’s heart gave an envious throb as she caught the refraction of light from their surfaces – the milky gleam of perfectly matched pearls, the flash of rubies relieved against contrasting velvet, the intense blue rays of sapphires kindled into light by surrounding diamonds: all these precious tints enhanced and deepened by the varied art of their setting. The glow of the stones warmed Lily’s veins like wine. More completely than any other expression of wealth they symbolized the life she longed to lead, the life of fastidious aloofness and refinement in which every detail should have the finish of a jewel, and the whole form a harmonious setting to her own jewel-like rareness.
— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that there is little time and space in which to explore emancipatory potentialities outside what is marketed as 'creative' adventure, leisure, and spectacle. Obliged to live as appendages of the market and of capital accumulation rather than as expressive beings, the realm of freedom shrinks before the awful logic and the hollow intensity of market involvements
— David Harvey
If you're perpetually broke, you should be working hard at overcoming stupidity and not getting rich.
— Taiwo Abraham
True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.
— Mouloud Benzadi
As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ: Biblical Mysteries Revealed in His Own Words Like Never Before in Human History
Carpe Diem... I express my gratitude for everything in my life. What else is possible?
— Ron Barrow
True wealth isn't measured by what you have making you happy, true wealth is measured by being happy with what you have.
— Scott Joffe
We are programmed to succeed from birth but we deprogram ourselves with beliefs
— Daniel Marques, The 88 Secret Codes of the Power Elite: The Complete Truth about Making Money with the Law of Attraction and Creating Miracles in Life that is Being Hidden from You with Mind Programming
Religion can't separate us, politics can't divide us, wealth can't classify us. We're all one! We're children of LOVE!
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
All the wealth in this sinful world, cannot buy one second of life in God's Paradise.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Some spend their lives chasing money; while some live theirs with a strong positive purpose, but then you have those who spend their lifetime on earth running away from both.
It is my right to be rich, happy, and successful. I AM completely solvent and building my wealth everyday!
— Ron Barrow
If you're in bed and can't smell the bacon frying in the kitchen - you're rich.
— C Mack Lewis
Get a wealth of 'GOoD' vibes at goodreads.com
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Today I AM grateful for wealth. There are many seeds planted inside me that are growing and pouring endless financial prosperity onto my life.
— Ron Barrow
Today is a beautiful day. I AM deeply grateful for everything in my life. ALL is welcome here!
— Ron Barrow
What's great about today? I AM experiencing great prosperity and a sudden increase in abundance.
— Ron Barrow
Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.
— Anne Mateer, A Home for My Heart
Money is very important in life, but without the presence of happiness, life would feel very empty even with all the wealth the world has to offer.
The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
Money flows to me freely, copiously, and endlessly. I AM tuned into the flow of prosperity and abundance!
— Ron Barrow
The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.
— Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.
— Shannon L. Alder
Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war...This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.
— Benjamin Franklin
Adam Antonovich's father was a tubby tyrant with a triple chin and chinks where his eyes should have been. All his life he had amassed money. In old age he had exchanged it for space; his estates grew, grew and swelled.("Adam")
— Andrei Bely, The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology
A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.
— Orrin Woodward
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
— Wendell Berry
Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
People are not poor because they do not have money
—  they are poor because they do not have knowledge.
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
— Yiddish Proverb
I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a fairly nice life. You could support your family, and even get a shot at owning your own home. But you never thought you'd get a swimming pool. Now culture has hypnotised people into thinking they're really nothing if they're not wealthy and a Kardashian.
— Tom Petty
Wealth is violent and uneasy to acquire, don't blow yourself by rushing. You won't find, you will only get lost on your way to find and you won't find it, Reserve yourself and wealth will find you.
— Auliq Ice
Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
— Rufus King, Murder on the Yacht
If you can't love me in my rugs, you don't deserve me in my riches
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Regular people are used to rudeness; we get it all the time, we're inured to it. The wealthy aren't; it hurts their feelings, or whatever they have in there.
— Michael Cleverly
The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.
— Auliq Ice
Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...
— Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
Money is a very dangerous thing, you have to get know how to look after it or else you will loose it with ease and remember how you would've it in hard times.
— Auliq Ice
Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.
— John Scalzi, Lock In
There are two types of people in life when it comes to their careers: people who visualize, and people who imitate. The people who visualize paint their own vision of what their mark is in the world, while the people who imitate can only see what the visualizers want them to.
— Ingrid Nkenlifack
Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.
— Anthony Robbins, MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
she was flighty and poor, a French studies major who quoted Simone de Beauvoir. She wiped her runny nose on her coat sleeve when it was snowing, stuck her head out of car windows the way dogs do, the wind fireworking her hair. That woman was gone now. Not that it was her fault. Vast fortunes did that to people. It took them to the cleaners, cruelly starched and steam-pressed them so all their raw edges, all the dirt and hunger and guileless laughter, were ironed out. Few survived real money.
— Marisha Pessl, Night Film
To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils.
— Adam Smith
And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat
—  and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!
It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.
— David Nicholls, One Day
I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country’s legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can’t buy her, of course. She’s got money of her own. But I’m pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he’ll give me the green light.
— Margaret Way, Cattle Rancher, Secret Son
Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.
— Leo Tolstoy
What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would have to survive without corporate welfare to the tune of about $1 trillion (that’s trillion) in government subsidies, the majority of which, about $650 billion, go to the fossil fuel industry! They are living off of the public dole on subsidies totaling billions of dollars—that we hand out either directly, or through tax breaks for their big corporations—with the false assumption that they are creating jobs. They are not. They are creating yachts, Leer Jets, and McMansions with swimming pools.
— Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
There are brains so smart in finance and unconsciously reject wealth.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
She bent and placed a single daisy upon the grave. A simple white daisy. The plainest of flowers, perhaps the purest, Elspeth thought. It had cost next to nothing at all, and perhaps that was the point. She wasn’t being cheap. She was being symbolic. In her mind, Andrea deserved only the unstained purity of the simplest of daisies, a daisy that was unsoiled by a wealth that couldn’t find the money to have claimed her soul.
— J.R. Tompkins
Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.
— George S. Clason
Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.
— George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.
— Debasish Mridha
The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.
— Basava
You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
— James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans
The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.
— Onyi Anyado
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
It’s hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for thinking it.
— Eric Sennevoight, The World's Game
When God gives you wealth, it is not a blessing; it is a test. He wants to test your faith in Him plus your desire and willingness to share. Be careful with the love of money.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise
As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone in her position, coming from a background where rick of failure was minimal; in fact, you had to work hard to fail in her world.
— Hanif Kureishi
I saw myself as reviving a certain mode of life, a mode that had been almost lost: the contemplative life of the country gentleman, in harmony with his status and history. In Renaissance times they had called it sprezzatura. The idea was to do whatever one did with grace, to imbue one’s every action with beauty, while at the same time making it look quite effortless. Thus, if one were to work at, say, law, one should raise it to the level of an art; if one were to laze, then one must laze beautifully. This, they said, was the true meaning of being an aristocrat.
— Paul Murray
Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s the availability of quality staff . . .” The words died away on my lips: once again I found myself trailing off in the stare of those unblinking eyes. This fellow was like some kind of after-dinner black hole. My anxiety began to mount again.
— Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes
Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree.
— David Brooks
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
Humility is hard when someone has things like wealth, knowledge, & recognition that may tempt him/her behave and act pridefully. Otherwise, worrying about pride without these factors that predispose you, it is just an illusion.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.
— Paul Murray
You'll be enlightened about how you can alter what you think, feel and believe about money in order to "Get Rich Savvy Chick.
— Lorene Collier Purcy, Get Rich Savvy Chick: How to Keep Prosperity in Your Pocketbook
The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.
— Thomas à Kempis
We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.
— Raheel Farooq
We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.
— Neil M. Gunn, Young Art and Old Hector
What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would have to survive without corporate welfare to the tune of about $1 trillion (that’s trillion) in government subsidies, the majority of which, about $650 billion, go to the fossil fuel industry! They are living off of the public dole on subsidies totaling billions of dollar—that we hand out either directly, or through tax breaks for their big corporations—with the false assumption that they are creating jobs. They are not. They are creating yachts, Leer Jets, and McMansions with swimming pools.
— Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
There was nothing wrong with having an expensive home, nothing wrong at all. There’s a pride in building something up, working hard to achieve something. But it shouldn’t have been his manhood that increased with each new success, it should have been his heart. His success was like the witch in ‘Hansel and Gretel’ fairy tale: it fed him for all the wrong reasons, fattening him in all the wrong places. Dad deserved his success, he just needed a masterclass in humility. I could have done with one too. How special I thought I was in the silver Aston Martin in which he drove me to school some mornings. How special am I now, now that somebody bought it from a depot of reprocessed cars, for a fraction of the price. How special indeed
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.
— J.S.B. Morse, Chaos and Kingdom: A Financial Thriller
Sharing knowledge is sharing wealth
— Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
Health is a priceless wealth. Invest while you can.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone.
— Raphael Zernoff, All That Is
Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We always been rich, Lydia. We just ain't had much money.
— Marilyn Sue Shank, Child of the Mountains
As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.
— James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger
The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the violence committed for wealth is socially invisible or committed at enough of a distance that its beneficiaries don't have to be aware of it. This type of violence has defined every imperialist war in the history of the US that has been fought to get access to "natural resources" for corporations to turn into the cheap consumer goods that form the basis of the American way of life.
— Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We live in fear of losing what we think we possess. Once we let go and let God, then we gain a peace that surpasses understanding.
— Toni Sorenson
I am, I know I am, the use of God’s limitless opulence and supply.
— Malti Bhojwani, Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey
— Kharis Macey, UPON HIS DEATH BED 1: From the Serial - THE FRONT HOUSE JUMBIES
As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery.
— E.L. Doctrow
America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery.
— E.L. Doctrow
To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The blessings and grace of God is my greatest wealth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Wealth mostly ignored the real reality.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.
— Misha Glenny, McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime
Your composite health is directly proportional to your composite wealth.
— Anthony   Pan
You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer.
— Steve Goodier
I once asked him why he smoked the world's most expensive cigarette, and he told me it was because he was a man of wealth and taste, at least according to Mick Jagger.
— K.H. Koehler, The Devil Dances
It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged that the United States didn’t fully live up to that ideal, but he argued that America came closer than anywhere else.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought—to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet—and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
— William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness
What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?
— Jennifer Crusie, Strange Bedpersons
Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of the highborn. Blood is not water, it is said, but gold with them is dearer far than the ties of nature; to keep and augment their possessions being the aim and end of their lives, the existence, and, more especially, the happiness of their children, appears to them a consideration at once trivial and impertinent, when it would compete with family views and family greatness. To this common and and iniquitous feeling these luckless beings were sacrificed; they had endured the worst, and could be injured no more; but their orphan child was a living victim, less thought of than the progeny of the meanest animal which might serve to augment their possessions.Mrs. Baker felt some complacency on reading this letter; with the common English respect for wealth and rank, she was glad to find that her humble roof had sheltered a man who was the son — she did not exactly know of whom, but of somebody, who had younger sons and elder sons, and possessed, through wealth, the power of behaving frightfully ill to a vast number of persons.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Falkner
For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between the two that she came to see their qualities as interchangeable, expecting material comfort from virtue and moral edification from wealth.
— Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
You can have it all,Luxury and wealth,A lot of friends and a good health,And own everything on earth.However, if you have greed,Jealousy, bitter and want not to see anyone get ahead in life.A dumping site is better than you because not everything found on a dumping site has no value.Plastics can be recycled,And some goods are not too bad to be used again.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title.
— David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper
A child who was born with a silver spoon is likely to not appreciate all he is provided with.And it is likely that a child who grew up from the dust to look down on others once the floods gate of success opens up for him.It is NOT where you come FROM that matters,But where you are GOING.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
He is rich who owes nothing.
— Hungarian proverb
Love is the true wealth, which can do entirely without wealth.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, From Poet's Hand
Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.
— Napoleon Hill, You Can Work Your Own Miracles
The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The respect now shown for wealth and money-making has been the most fundamental change in Britain over four decades.
— Anthony Sampson
When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
I don't know if you have any idea what a high school in Paris is like in this day and age in the posh neighborhoods—but quite honestly, the slummy banlieues of Marseille have nothing on ours. In fact it may even be worse here, because where you have money, you have drugs—and not just a little bit and not just one kind.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything hadn't seen anyone as rich as the Aglionby boys. They were untouchable, immune to life's troubles. Only death couldn't be swiped away by a credit card.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?
— Pietros Maneos
If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Mrs. Pott's beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a Mad Hatter serenading a toaster as we speak. There could be mayhem wreaking havoc all over the love in New Gotham, granted what thankless ingrates you are. But here I am! I've taken a chance on you..
— Sophie Avett, 'Twas the Darkest Night (Darkest Hour Saga, #1)
When a woman is attracted to a man, it doesn't matter if he's rich or not.
— Maggie Brendan, Perfectly Matched
It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won't be sorry for your damn f***ing soul, and the devil gat no time to refund what you had already sell, demons don't understand the meaning of sympathy, you should know that already, so, go make some dollar bill in hell, and come back and give me some.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The only reason i love the courage of these individuals is that they take their family members as astray chicks, and the reason i don't want to belong to this category is because those chicks are far more important to me than trivial wealth and fame.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.
— Derek Barton
A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.
— Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide
Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;- 5 -
— Munindra Misra, Goals of Life
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!
— Richard Goldschmidt
Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.
— Munindra Misra, PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
The World is a Treasure Map.
— Roger James Hamilton
The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on top no matter what. Stuyvesant was hard but hopeful; Oberlin, on the other hand, reminds me yet again how the world works. I guess that's why they call it an education.
— Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure
Mrs. Potts beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a Mad Hatter serenading a toaster as we speak. There could be mayhem wreaking havoc all over the love in New Gotham, granted what thankless ingrates you are. But here I am!
— Sophie Avett, 'Twas the Darkest Night (Darkest Hour Saga, #1)
That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?" Marshall smirked. "Woe is me.
— Sophie Avett, 'Twas the Darkest Night (Darkest Hour Saga, #1)
The world is a Treasure Map
— Roger Hamilton
The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
You know when it comes to who should govern themselves, we have old people talking around tables,” Jimmi says. “When you throw religion into the mix, you have a whole new set of problems. You can't say one has nothing to do with the other because that is simply not true. You have to change the government before we set religious freedoms. People like Firo and Clavis, they just don't want to suppress people. They want wealth and power. It's hard to find those who don't.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
In the strength of thine on desires is a magic power.
— George S. Clason
you can find all the gold and silver you will ever need at christhebusman
— christhebusman
Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
your wealth and so called status can not earn real respect for you in the society , if you are characterless (have no purity).
— Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri
Instead of allowing wealth and resources to change us, we must choose to allow God to change our way of thinking about wealth and resources
— Jamie Gates, Living Justice: Revolutionary Compassion in a Broken World
Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics