wealth

Even when the economy isn__ doing so well, people will still need good products and services. When you build a business around products and services that people will always need, then find innovative ways to let it run on autopilot while you grow it, then that__ a sure recipe for wealth.

Unnecessary spending makes another man rich and another man poor.

Despite the modern equipment we sell, it's old money that funds it, and old money doesn't always have a modern brain attached to it.

...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are the moving impulses of our life. But it is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

A few men__ fight for the survival is stronger than a nation__ fight for the wealth.

We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.

The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.

Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.

156/ I'd be very good at being rich, but no one has offered to test my talents in that department. ... New York was like a wealthy, handsome, intensely artistic, complex, slightly manic man who, for some inexplicable reason, was enthralled with me. Not that I ever met a man like that. Who needed men anyway? I'll take Manhattan.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.

Friends are better than a lot of wealth.

To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.

Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.

If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode.

We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...