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

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
Ludwig von Mises

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Felix Adler

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse

Where there are friends there is wealth.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
John Chrysostom

Your wealth is where your friends are.
Titus Maccius Plautus

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
Evita Peron

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

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
John Mellencamp

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

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

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
John Tyler

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

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
William Feather

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