wealth

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest. If our own life is luxurious and wasteful, we can't approach poor people. If we love people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

If you are willing to do only what__ easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what__ hard, life will be easy.

When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.