There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e.,… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
“If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My sense is that we are looking at unbelievable quantities of wealth moving from the control of the kingdom of darkness, to… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living.… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people… — Jeff Baxter Copy Share Image
The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Everybody likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Prosperity comes and goes to leave us miserable, And adversity, on the contrary, will leave us stronger, happier and confident.Therefore bad times… — Divya Copy Share Image
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“America is particularly boastful of her great power, her enormous national wealth. Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
As I have told many, the only goal my dad had for me was to keep me alive to reach the age… — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“A fortune-teller means a braggart anyway. Don’t you know that a donkey can’t do but braying, a wolf can’t do but howling,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Again, all who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius:… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The poor man, a term which means the man who doesn't know how to operate and release the riches of his mind,… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on… — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health,… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
“Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
