Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“Dear God, I don’t ask for fame and fortune but for an opportunity to embrace many. I don’t ask you to make… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
“You have just one life here on earth and it behooves you to make the best out of it.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis.… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry. — Craig T. Nelson Copy Share Image
Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am the sum of all my yesterdays, appreciating today and planning for my tomorrow's ~ Big Al Connolly — Big Al Connolly Copy Share Image
Why do you need to know that? Because until you know that Jesus was prosperous, you won't be either. You may have… — John Avanzini Copy Share Image
“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The president stopped and turned. "You are a soldier of fortune." Gentry pushed him forward. "After expenses, I'm really more like a… — Mark Greaney Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“If you really want to be financially wealthy, you must begin to convert your time into producing something for the world.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces. — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
“Take hold of your passing time and convert it into living your dreams.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As to what the future's uncertain lot has in store, why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand… — Seneca Copy Share Image
We removed wealth tax in the 1991 budget. That is one way in which the children of those who had wealth could… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image