I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living… Interventions have… — Chuck Feeney Copy Share Image
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any… — John Waters Copy Share Image
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
“What I “discovered” was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It's the way they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population.… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It was my mother who regularly reminded me that I was merely a steward of any wealth I gained. With wealth came… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
“I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale.… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Thus is the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
