You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows?… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
“If it were not for certain people's greed for wealth, the highways would be filled with cars powered by the sun, and… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Copy Share Image
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
My mom always told me that we could never measure our wealth by money but by our friends. She would surely be… — Norden Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this? — from… — Ernie J. Zelinski Copy Share Image
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I dont… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
But the truth is the meritocracy is a lie. Those born into wealth and privilege will always be able to game the… — Krystal Ball Copy Share Image
I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth?… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Most people have it all wrong about wealth in America. Wealth is not the same as income. If you make a good… — Thomas J. Stanley Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing… — Nayantara Sahgal Copy Share Image