Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which… — Walter Reuther Copy Share Image
It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South… — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
“That scene in the office stayed with me. Those cigars, the fine clothes. I thought of good steaks, long rides up winding… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take… — Seth Copy Share Image
The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
“Preindustrial living standards are predictable based on knowledge of disease and environment. Differences in social energy across societies were muted by the… — Gregory Clark Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes… — Ralph Moody Copy Share Image
The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune;… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene… — Andrew Jack Copy Share Image
People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth,… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Do you know how many great writers, musicians, artists, scientists, inventors, theologians, and statesmen have died poor? All of them! You can't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value. At a certain level of wealth, the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think if you do have democracy it would transform the world because if the millions of people who die live on… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq… — Peter T. King Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
