Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for… — Ali Akbar Khan Copy Share Image
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles,… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben -… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Pott's beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a… — Sophie Avett Copy Share Image
“Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.” — Larry Stone Copy Share Image
Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“If you desire to be productive with your time, you should select a maximum of two things that are your highest priority,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Nine million people - nine million people lost their jobs [in 2008]. Five million people lost their homes. And $13 trillion in… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Your perspective of life may be a finite one, but you are neither finite nor limited! Refuse to live with guilt or… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
When you get fame and fortune and you make something of your life and become successful... But [there is a] whole new… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The rich inevitably are going to organize their wealth to avoid government confiscation. They’ll do whatever the law allows to use their… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need… — Pericles Copy Share Image
“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“You can become great by multiplying yourself through time conversion into different products but that will only be possible if you understand… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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