Thoughts on wealth

Contentment is the only real wealth.
—Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
—Edmund Burke
Irish statesman

Wealth and compassion are opposites.
—Munshi Premchand
Author

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
—George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
—Tony Judt
British-American historian

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
—Kin Hubbard
American humourist

I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.
—Azim Premji
Entrepreneur