By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my… — Zhang Zai Copy Share Image
Everyone - regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age - should be able to fulfil their potential… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“We begin with the proposition that capitalism is not chiefly an incentive system but an information system. We continue with the recognition,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“The rich, noisy city, fat with food and drink, is a spent thing; it's chief concern is its digestion and its little… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis… — Eric A. Hanushek Copy Share Image
We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day.… — Lesley Boone Copy Share Image
“For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems… — Johan Cruyff Copy Share Image
If Citizens United has been an invaluable tool for the maintenance of entrenched wealth, Shelby County has been similarly vital for those… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
The existence of billionaires should sound an alarm: they are the most extreme manifestation of wealth generated by the efforts of millions… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“Take a population of 10 people, 9 having a net worth of $ 30,000 and 1 having a net worth of $… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I don't really know what the prosperity gospel is. The way I define it is that I believe God wants you to… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I wish to make my fortune with you.’ ‘Well, you can forget about that, for a start,’ said Francis Crawford. ‘And if… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Limitations are like mirages created by your own mind. When you realise that limitation do not exist, those around you will also… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cherish your life, Cherish your health, Cherish your family, Cherish your friends. For these are the things that money can't buy and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It [cooperative banking and cooperative stores] is the spirit of brotherhood returned to earth; . . . it is true appreciation of… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist,… — William H. Gates, Sr Copy Share Image