So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I lost many friendships because of my wealth. When my friends met me, they had an agenda in mind. Just because I… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that our kids deserve a brighter future. They deserve an opportunity to attend college, regardless of their wealth… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump faces the perhaps accumulation of all the wealth in the world on the head of [Marco] Rubio, because Rubio's the… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
We don't want to tell young girls and boys that the odds are stacked against them from the start. Instead, we could… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
The promise of American opportunity and prosperity means something different to each of us. What we each envision varies in terms of… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“There are just three things that you can do with Money: save, give, or invest. Somehow in here in America, with all… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a… — Bruno Rossi Copy Share Image
“So the way to control your life is this; every minute you live, maybe you are in church; ask yourself “why am… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Expressions such as infamous capital, vile exploiters, the admirable working man, the socialisation of wealth, &c., always produce the same effect, although… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“These pleasures last but until tomorrow, And they wear out the vital powers of life. How fleeting is all life on earth!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have… — Julian Robertson Copy Share Image
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Wealth does not just appear; it is drawn to those who cultivate a mindset of abundance. When your thoughts are aligned with… — Linsey Mills Copy Share Image
After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Russia's economy is both cursed and blessed by oil. When the oil price goes up, there is a tremendous 'wealth effect' spilling… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
I could pull my living in and live OK, but I don't want to live OK. I'm very happy to live in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated, or being perfect...It is about being real, being humble, being… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image