155 quotes found
“More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a childs primer, that...”
“Wealth creepsunder your epidermislike poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself.”
“When you're no one from nowhere it's best to know your limits. Rich kids can play at bohemia, but wealth has long tendrils; it twines into a safety net which can also be a trap for the unprepared. ...”
“You do not have to be rich to live an excessively enriched life.”
“Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.”
“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 stree...”
“If you're in bed and can't smell the bacon frying in the kitchen - you're rich.”
“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.”
“that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.”
“He is rich who owes nothing.”
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.”
“The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.”
“In the strength of thine on desires is a magic power.”
“you can find all the gold and silver you will ever need at christhebusman”
“Almost 1/2 the worlds wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population”
“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”
“A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat.”
“Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable c...”
“I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.”
“Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!”
