I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty. — John Edward Copy Share Image
“You gave me the drive, ambition, and discipline to pursue wealth and I haven’t even met you yet, stranger.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew… — Micaela Flores Amaya Copy Share Image
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that… — Rachel Field 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
The rich does not work for money, but money work for them…, While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the second and the third night there was again a ball -- this time in mid-ocean, during a furious storm sweeping… — Ivan Bunin Copy Share Image
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
“One of the great differences that set Jews apart from other cultural groups is that we see our wealth as a means… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Countries were told they had no incentives because of social ownership. The solution was privatization and profit, profit, profit. Privatization would replace… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are not fully, totally, and truly committed to creating wealth, chances are you won't. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
“To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“He who loves money never has money enough, He who loves wealth never has enough profit; This too is vanity.” — Ecclesiastes Copy Share Image
“I have since come to know that many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.” — Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Government doesn't make people prosperous. Prosperity is found within the ideas of the American people. Always has been, and it always will. — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.” — Amah Lambert Copy Share Image
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“You can create the best out of your life by understanding the wealth of time and converting that time into the life… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.” — Seneca Copy Share Image