#wealth

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ↗

— DeWitt Clinton

#ecstatic #enjoyment #frame #indefinite #knowledge

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#insight #wealth #wisdom #wit #insight

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#forever #given #keep #only #wealth

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#creation #fun #good #good thing #house

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#consideration #dead #either #eulogy #person

A thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. ↗

— Clint Black

#avoid #because #bizarre #desperate #driven

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#back #because #breaks #cut #economic

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

#basic needs #dependent #government #increasingly #large