Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst -… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that self-interest can solve this problem. Given a free economy and an impartial rule… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“You must remember that whether you like it or not, every day your life is diminishing, your life is reducing and your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from… — Plato Copy Share Image
Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned as I've studied the principles in God's Word is this, that God wants us to prosper.… — Mark Gorman Copy Share Image
“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“People become wealthy when they become specific... when they know what that means to them, not only in terms of the objects… — Kiki Theo Copy Share Image
“Life is the ultimate treasure we seek to cherish; life becomes empty when we wearily seek wealth; under the presumption that it… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest… — Rose Kennedy 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
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians… — Jacob Schiff Copy Share Image
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people… — Mahbub ul Haq Copy Share Image
Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasingly angry majority that not only wants to change the Republican policies that are moving… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and… — Anonymous 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
“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