Wealth building Quotes

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

- A. J. P. Taylor

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

- Abraham Cahan

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

- Abu Bakar Bashir

Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.

- Adam Davidson

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

- Adam Davidson

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.

- Adam Lashinsky

A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.

- Adam Ostrow

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

- Adam Rich

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

- Adam Smith

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

- Aeschylus

And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital.

- Alan Greenspan

It's hard to make small investments when you're a billion-dollar fund.

- Alan Patricof

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

- Alan Watts

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

- Albert Claude

I don't like inherited wealth.

- Albert Gubay

Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

- Alex Berenson

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

- Alexander Herzen

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

- Alexander Pope

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

- Alexandra Stoddard

Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

- Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

- Alexei Mordashov

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 Marshall

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 Marshall

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

- Alfred Marshall

Contentment is the only real wealth.

- Alfred Nobel

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

- Alfred Russel Wallace

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

- Ali Akbar Khan

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.

- Alice Walton

If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.

- Aliko Dangote

Where the assets of Facebook were hype, we have real assets.

- Aliko Dangote

If I had challenges in my company, I would not hesitate to sell assets to remain afloat, to get to the better times, because it doesn't make any sense for me to keep any assets and then suffocate the whole organization.

- Aliko Dangote

We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.

- Alison Gopnik

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

- Allan Savory

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

- Allen West

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

- Ambrose Bierce

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

- Amish Tripathi

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

- Ana Patricia Botin

We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.

- Anand Mahindra

Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

- Anand Mahindra

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

- Andre Aciman

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

- Andrew Carnegie

Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.

- Andrew Jack

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

The best organizations are filled with people who have a wealth of choices as to what work they choose to do. We need to give them every reason possible to solve the world's problems.

- Andrew Yang

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

- Andrew Young

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

- Andrew Young

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

- Angus Deaton

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

- Anita Roddick

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

- Anne Frank

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

- Anohni

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

- Anthony de Mello

Good debt accrues assets that generate positive returns and externalities.

- Anthony Scaramucci

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

- Anthony Trollope

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

- Antoine Rivarol

In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.

- Apollonius of Tyana

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

- Apollonius of Tyana

Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.

- Arancha Gonzalez

It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

- Ari Fleischer

Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.

- Armand Deutsch

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

- Armstrong Williams

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

- Armstrong Williams

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

- Arpad Busson

What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals.

- Arpad Busson

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

- Arthur C. Brooks

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.

- Arthur Laffer

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.

- Arundhati Roy

Novelty is the universal cry - novelty by hook or by crook! It is an exceedingly common mania among people of inordinate wealth to exact incessantly new or so-called new dishes.

- Auguste Escoffier

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

- Austin O'Malley

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

- Ayn Rand

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

- Ayn Rand

If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.

- Azim Premji

I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.

- Azim Premji

Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.

- Azim Premji

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

- Azim Premji

I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.

- Azim Premji

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

Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.

- Azim Premji

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

- B. Wayne Hughes

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

- Barack Obama

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

- Barack Obama

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

- Barbara Sher

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

- Barry Commoner

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.

- Barton Gellman

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

- Ben Bernanke

Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or reduce inequality is not clear.

- Ben Bernanke

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

- Ben Hecht

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.

- Ben Horowitz

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.

- Ben Shapiro

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

Let's bang the gong and chime for more Asian superheroes. The gatekeepers can certainly open the door - there's a wealth of East Asian talent around, and that needs to be tapped into.

- Benedict Wong

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

- Benjamin Disraeli

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

- Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

- Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

- Benjamin Franklin

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

- Benjamin Jowett

We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

- Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

- Bernard Ebbers

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

- Bernie Sanders

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

- Bill Dixon

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

- Bill Gates

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

- Bill Gates

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

- Bill Gross

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

- Bill Maris

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

- Bill Owens

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

- Billy Graham

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

- Bo Bennett

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

- Bob Brown

In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.

- Bob Diamond

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

- Bob Marley

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

- Bono

I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.

- Boris Johnson

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

- Boris Johnson

If I would have to sacrifice R&D investments to fulfill a goal, that would be the wrong goal to have.

- Borje Ekholm

Profitability is the only way to control your own investments.

- Borje Ekholm

I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth.

- Brad Schneider

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

- Brenda Blethyn

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

- Brian Behlendorf

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

- Brian Harris

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

- Brian Koslow

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

- Brownie McGhee

I like to spend money on investments.

- Bruce Rauner

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

- Bruno Rossi

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

- Buddha

NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

- Buzz Aldrin

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

- C. Wright Mills

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

- C. Wright Mills

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

- Calvin Coolidge

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

- Cara Black

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

- Carlos Slim

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

- Carlos Slim

The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.

- Carlos Slim

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

- Catherine Helen Spence

Being able to see and recombine existing assets and know-how in new ways allows us to take an 'ingenious approach to innovation' - one that creates even more value from what we already have and know.

- Cathy Engelbert

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

- Cesar Chavez

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

- Chanakya

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

- Chanakya

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

- Chance The Rapper

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

- Chanda Kochhar

Our approach on lending has always been that we will lend to India-linked assets, because that's the risk that we understand, and that is the business that has been doing very well.

- Chanda Kochhar

She worked hard till she saw all of us through college and we became independent. I never knew that my mother had such a wealth of self-assurance and belief within her.

- Chanda Kochhar

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

- Charles Babbage

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

- Charles E. Wilson

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

- Charles E. Wilson

Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.

- Charles Kennedy

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how to best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine! Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

- Charles M. Schwab

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

- Charles M. Schwab

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

- Charles Spurgeon

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

- Charlie Munger

A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart.

- Charlie Shrem

It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.

- Charlie Sykes

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn't think they had great assets if you have to do a rebuild. It was more that than Bron. Bron and I have always had an amazing relationship.

- Chauncey Billups

Chinese people like to do things with a low profile; they do not like to expose their wealth.

- Chen Guangbiao

My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.

- Chen Guangbiao

I think it is what you do with your wealth that is important. I don't believe in accumulating money for money's sake. It's one of the reasons I want to do more about helping women.

- Cherie Blair

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

- Christian Louboutin

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

- Christian Louboutin

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.

- Christine Pelosi

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

- Christopher Marlowe

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

- Christy Turlington

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

- Chrystia Freeland

Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.

- Chrystia Freeland

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

- Chuck Berry

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

- Chuck Feeney

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

- Chuck Feeney

I believe that people of substantial wealth potentially create problems for future generations unless they themselves accept responsibility to use their wealth during their lifetime to help worthwhile causes.

- Chuck Feeney

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.

- Chuck Feeney

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

- Chuck Hagel

When you're out in the field and spending time in these different places around the world, humility is one of the most important assets that will serve you well.

- Clarissa Ward

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

- Claude M. Bristol

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

- Colin Farrell

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

- Confucius

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

- Conrad Black

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

- Craig Charles

In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.

- Dale T. Mortensen

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

- Dan Gertler

In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

- Dan Gilbert

There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.

- Dane DeHaan

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

- Daniel Inouye

Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

- Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

- Daniel Kahneman

Carrier networks were originally built for connecting phone calls. Now they're getting swamped with bandwidth-hogging data applications. Keeping up will require huge investments. Who's going to pay for that?

- Daniel Lyons

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

- Daniel Webster

I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.

- Daniel Woodrell

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

- Darrell Issa

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

- Darrell Issa

Europe is kind of fragmented. Africa is nascent; we've made a few investments, including four in Egypt. I visit 50-60 cities and 20-25 countries a year. The intent is to be a global fund, which takes time and prioritization.

- Dave McClure

Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat.

- Dave McClure

A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.

- Dave Ramsey

The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors under the misguided idea that wealth will one day trickle down.

- David Brock

Ultimately, we measure ourselves on the success of our investments.

- David Cohen

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

- David Gill

The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.

- David Grann

I think that we're trying to look at all of our assets and figure out what's the best use and where we need to make investments in infrastructure to enable the projects that we want.

- David Ige

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.

- David Joseph Schwartz

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

- David Korten

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

- David Korten

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

- David Korten

The annual 'Forbes' Billionaires List speaks volumes about the movement and concentration of wealth across industries and geographies.

- David Lichtenstein

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

- David Ricardo

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

- David S. Rose

We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.

- David Sze

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

- Dayananda Saraswati

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

- Dayananda Saraswati

The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.

- Daymond John

Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

- Deepak Chopra

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

- Dennis Prager

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

- Desiderius Erasmus

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

- DeWitt Clinton

Talk to successful entrepreneurs. Learn about what they've experienced so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that come with wealth.

- Diane Hendricks

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

- Dick Cheney

As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

- Dolores Huerta

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

- Don Tapscott

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

- Donald Berwick

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

- Donald G. Mitchell

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

- Donald Trump

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

- Donald Trump

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

- Donald Trump

Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

- Donald Trump, Jr.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

- Doug Ose

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

- Douglas Coupland

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

- Drew Barrymore

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

- Edmund Burke

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

- Edmund Burke

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

- Edmund Phelps

In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

- Edmund Phelps

Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

- Edmund Phelps

Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.

- Edmund Phelps

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

- Edmund Phelps

Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

- Edmund Phelps

My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

- Edmund Phelps

With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.

- Edmund Phelps

'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

- Edmund Phelps

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

- Edward Blake

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

- Edward Cocker

How indifferent are men to this carpenter or that fisherman, who has no word to speak of adventure or of wealth, but has only the word of God to proclaim, and has no credentials but that he comes in the name of the Lord.

- Edward Everett Hale

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

- Edward Steichen

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.

- Edward Young

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

- Edward Young

Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.

- Edwin Markham

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

- Eike Batista

To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.

- Eileen Myles

I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.

- Eileen Myles

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

- Elayne Boosler

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

- Eleanor Robson Belmont

I believe in two things: One, Andrew Carnegie said, 'He who dies with wealth dies in shame.' And someone once said, 'He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.'

- Eli Broad

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.

- Elsa Peretti

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

- Emma Goldman

I wish to be clear: all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.

- Emmerson Mnangagwa

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

- Empedocles

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

- Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

- Epictetus

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

- Epictetus

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

- Eric Maskin

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments.

- Eric Schneiderman

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

- Eric Stoltz

When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.

- Erik Voorhees

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

- Ernest Hemingway

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

- Ernest Hemingway

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.

- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

- Ernie Banks

Our aim is to open access to a wealth of previously unexplored mineral resources on lifeless rocks hurling through space, without damaging natural habitats.

- Etienne Schneider

Do I appreciate my wealth? Absolutely, yes. I'm trying to embed in my children's heads that if you don't earn it, you don't appreciate it.

- Eugene Shvidler

First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.

- Euny Hong

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

- Euripides

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

- Euripides

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

- Evgeny Morozov

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

- Ezra Taft Benson

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

- Ezra Taft Benson

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

- F. Sionil Jose

Real estate investing is unique in that it's almost as much a career or a way of life as it is a form of investing. Indeed, the fact that real estate is involves so much sweat equity makes it unique among other investments.

- Fabrizio Moreira

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

- Felix Dennis

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

- Felix Dennis

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

- Ferdinand Lassalle

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

- Fidel Castro

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

- Fidel Castro

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

- Foster Friess

Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.

- Foster Friess

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

- Frances Wright

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.

- Francis Spufford

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

- Francois Hollande

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

- Frank Herbert

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

- Frank Herbert

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.

- Frank Quattrone

We 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. Roosevelt

Tech can help population health, make health more accessible, more affordable. Tech can also get people get more included in the economy and contribute and drive growth, and growth and wealth are great contributors to a safer world.

- Frans van Houten

I'd guess blockchains will be the full-blown backbone of virtual worlds - the system for currency, assets, identity, even governance - before doing the same in the 'real world.' Which is where I think we will end up in the real world eventually; it's just a matter of which goes first and how long until it's the case for both.

- Fred Ehrsam

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

- Frederick W. Smith

It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.

- Gaby Hoffmann

Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

- Gary Zukav

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

- Gautam Adani

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

- Gene Tierney

While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of - an economic system we routinely deplore.

- Geoff Dyer

We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy.

- Geoffrey West

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

- George A. Smith

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

- George Bernard Shaw

In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.

- George C. Wolfe

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

- George Eliot

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

- George Grey

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

- George Herbert

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

- George Orwell

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

- George Osborne

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

- George Sanders

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

- George Santayana

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

- George Santayana

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.

- George Soros

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

- George W. Bush

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

- George Will

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

- George William Norris

I have a wealth of experience, but I do not want to coach. I rather like the role of recruiter.

- Gianluigi Buffon

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

- Gilbert Highet

My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.

- Gina McKee

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

- Glenn Close

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

- Gloria Steinem

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

- Gordon Gee

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

- Grace Napolitano

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

- Grant Hill

We have a broad range of investments. Anyone who invests in emerging markets around the world has investments in Russia. This is a tiny portion of our portfolio.

- Greg Gianforte

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

- Gregor Strasser

When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself.

- Gregory Meeks

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

- Guru Nanak

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.

- Guru Nanak

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

- H. L. Mencken

Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

- Haile Selassie

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

- Hank Johnson

It seems like an obligation if you have it so good. You have to spread the wealth.

- Hannah Teter

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

- Hans Rosling

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

- Harbhajan Singh

Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

- Harold Hamm

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

- Helen Clark

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

- Helen Fisher

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

- Helen Reddy

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

- Helene D. Gayle

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

- Henry Adams

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

- Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

- Henry David Thoreau

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

- Henry Ford

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

- Henry George

Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.

- Henry Giroux

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

- Henry Kravis

Sovereign wealth fund money should be welcomed. The only way not to welcome that money is when it's politically driven.

- Henry Paulson

If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution.

- Henry Paulson

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

- Herbert A. Simon

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

- Herbert Read

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

- Herbert Read

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

- Herbert Simon

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

- Herbert Spencer

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

- Herman Kahn

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

- Herman Wouk