I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
“These monopolies, and many more, gave individuals or groups the sole right to control the production of many goods. They impeded the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers… — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi Copy Share Image
“There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasingly angry majority that not only wants to change the Republican policies that are moving… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
The things being smuggled in under the cover of Brexit will damage so much of what we hold dear. A cabal of… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
“Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S.… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car,… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“If you ever happen to become a clothier-cum-messenger like Esther, you'll soon learn that only wealth, might and legendary romances stir people's… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not… — Sallust Copy Share Image
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Far better is it to have the riches of love in the heart,than the poverty of having wealth in the wallet.the poorest… — Nikkie Copy Share Image
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You know a lot of people just run and assume how they think I am cause they see the house and they… — Diggy Simmons Copy Share Image
“If you can decide to invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“It is only when you run away from what society wants you to do with your time and then invest that time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The real wealth or worth of a person is a candid and collective opinion of his closest companions about his indelible image… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one’s wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image