The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.
Suze Orman

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
Peter Singer

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.
John Prescott

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

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

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
Neal Boortz

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
Paul Tsongas

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
Jackie Collins

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
Timothy Murphy

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
Thorstein Veblen

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Lucretius

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.
Tom Felton

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

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Johan Huizinga

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
Jay-Z