“If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers… — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi Copy Share Image
“There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Thus is the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“We are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What's happening is, there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“These monopolies, and many more, gave individuals or groups the sole right to control the production of many goods. They impeded the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
“I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale.… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of… — Dustin Moskovitz Copy Share Image
When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“So why do we call her crazy for piling her trailer full of more cats than she could take care of but… — David Wong Copy Share Image
If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce… — Adelle Davis Copy Share Image
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education,… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with thinking of ways to acquire wealth, get richer, and move up in the world. We should always… — Dr Prem Jagyasi 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
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said,… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image