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
“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
“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
“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
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Inequalities are inevitable under capitalism, but no other advanced economy has such a hyperconcentration of wealth. In fact, as we’ve seen, America… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
“To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others. The… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
If [Donald Trump] doesn't make sure that all the foreign government payments - and this includes banks and other corporations owned by… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely fortune--and so it was, a very poor way… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
A foolish man will pray and ask God for money, a wise man will pray and ask God for Wisdom, Knowledge &… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“You must fight to make sure that your life does not just disappear into thin air. It is a battle of not… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
“Hygge stems from a society that is focused on people rather than things. It is linked to the language of love and… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you’ll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you… — Seneca Copy Share Image
If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life.… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are:… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
“Nothing else matters much; not wealth, nor learning, nor even health… without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living.… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I worry that every time I lay down my credit card of choice, it says something about me. About my social standing… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image