The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
Christopher HitchensIf you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack ObamaAll the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon HillFriend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
Joel OsteenThere are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.
Mark ZuckerbergThe most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil GibranThere is no wealth but life.
John RuskinFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest HemingwayBritain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.
Noam ChomskyThe beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
AristotleEvery man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
Nelson MandelaFor me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.
Brene BrownI had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.
Dolly PartonMy philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
Richard BransonConcentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew CarnegieContent makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinYou have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
Michelle ObamaIt is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma GandhiTeach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin DisraeliIf the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund BurkeIt’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
Jimmy CarterIt is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas JeffersonThe only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.
Bad BunnyHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel JohnsonIf you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.
Robert KiyosakiThink and grow rich.
Napoleon HillBecause we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Keanu ReevesWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VoltaireIf you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.
Robert KiyosakiProbably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore RooseveltYou make more money if you’re generous.
Robert KiyosakiTrue wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
Kevin GatesFrom the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
Noam ChomskyThe man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. ForbesFortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
Karl LagerfeldPhysical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Dalai LamaHe does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin FranklinThe term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
Noam ChomskyMost people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.
Richard BransonThere is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert HubbardBut Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander PopeI can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
Bill GatesIf a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. KennedyI’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.
Bill GatesMoney has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
Bill GatesI think the word rich is all relative.
Joel OsteenFor people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
Robert KiyosakiHealthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston ChurchillPraise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel JohnsonIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Jack LondonHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.
Che GuevaraIn England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar WildeIf I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.
Bruno MarsI tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus ChristWe continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will RogersWealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry FordSuccess comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
John C. Maxwell