Earned Wealth Quotes

The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

I've invested the money to bring a Republican message to the City of New York and to win. It's money I earned and earned it honestly. I owe nobody.

The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

Do I appreciate my wealth? Absolutely, yes. I'm trying to embed in my children's heads that if you don't earn it, you don't appreciate it.

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

All the money I have, I made with my talent.

I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned.