Wealth Quotes

“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters.”
― Stephen Richards

“There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.”
― Frank Herbert

“If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.”
― Stephen Richards

“A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“This was a moment Alberon had dreamed of, and he gave no thought to his lost and banished lover, although he did at times wonder about the child. Did he have a bastard son or a daughter? But it really did not matter any more. It was simply the mistake of a love struck youth.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

“Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier?”
― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide

“Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!”
― Stephen Richards

“Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden.”
― Stephen Richards

“How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.”
― Stephen Richards

“The size of the problem is never the issue -- what matters is the size of you!”
― T. Harv Eker

“If you can't quite make it as a high flier then join a trampoline club.”
― Stephen Richards

“I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi, COLOMBO STREETS

“Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society has given them primarily for useful purposes. They do not seek to expand their lives, to live more wisely, intelligently, understandingly, but to impress other people with the fact that they have a surplus.”
― Stuart Chase

“The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Perseverance means continuous persistence in a course of action, a purpose, in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.”
― H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

“Although some popular religious texts such as the New Testament, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, or Tibetan Book of the Dead contain interesting insights and stories, it is the Jewish religious texts such as the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) that contain valuable information on acquiring wealth.”
― H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke

“Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.”
― H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

“Religious Jews believe that all things come from God, as God owns everything. The Tanakh says, “The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up” (NLT, 1 Samuel 2:7). “The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it” (NIV, Proverbs 10:22).”
― H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

“Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened as he expressed his concerns. I knew if I advised him to quit his job, another person would only replace him. If he were to quit, he might help himself, but he would not help his company, society, or country. I urged him to remain the director of his firm, to bring mindfulness into his daily work, and to use his position to communicate his concerns and doubts about the production of atomic bombs.

In the Sutra on Happiness, the Buddha says it is great fortune to have an occupation that allows us to be happy, to help others, and to generate compassion and understanding in this world. Those in the helping professions have occupations that give them this wonderful opportunity. Yet many social workers, physicians, and therapists work in a way that does not cultivate their compassion, instead doing their job only to earn money. If the bomb designer practises and does his work with mindfulness, his job can still nourish his compassion and in some way allow him to help others. He can still influence his government and fellow citizens by bringing greater awareness to the situation. He can give the whole nation an opportunity to question the necessity of bomb production.

Many people who are wealthy, powerful, and important in business, politics, and entertainment are not happy. They are seeking empty things - wealth, fame, power, sex - and in the process they are destroying themselves and those around them. In Plum Village, we have organised retreats for businesspeople. We see that they have many problems and suffer just as others do, sometimes even more. We see that their wealth allows them to live in comfortable conditions, yet they still suffer a great deal.

Some businesspeople, even those who have persuaded themselves that their work is very important, feel empty in their occupation. They provide employment to many people in their factories, newspapers, insurance firms, and supermarket chains, yet their financial success is an empty happiness because it is not motivated by understanding or compassion. Caught up in their small world of profit and loss, they are unaware of the suffering and poverty in the world. When we are not int ouch with this larger reality, we will lack the compassion we need to nourish and guide us to happiness.

Once you begin to realise your interconnectedness with others, your interbeing, you begin to see how your actions affect you and all other life. You begin to question your way of living, to look with new eyes at the quality of your relationships and the way you work. You begin to see, 'I have to earn a living, yes, but I want to earn a living mindfully. I want to try to select a vocation not harmful to others and to the natural world, one that does not misuse resources.'

Entire companies can also adopt this way of thinking. Companies have the right to pursue economic growth, but not at the expense of other life. They should respect the life and integrity of people, animals, plants and minerals. Do not invest your time or money in companies that deprive others of their lives, that operate in a way that exploits people or animals, and destroys nature.

Businesspeople who visit Plum Village often find that getting in touch with the suffering of others and cultivating understanding brings them happiness. They practise like Anathapindika, a successful businessman who lived at the time of the Buddha, who with the practise of mindfulness throughout his life did everything he could to help the poor and sick people in his homeland.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World

“There is no place more lonely
Than a rich man's home.”
― Margarita Engle, The Firefly Letters