Accumulation Quote by Adam Smith

“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the…

— Walter Isaacson

“So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of…

— Mark Twain

“A developed nation is also an expensive nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Wealth makes materialism easier to bear.”

— P. J. O'Rourke

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its…

— Anonymous

“It is therefore impossible to understand the unification of humankind as a purely economic process. In order to understand how thousands of isolated cultures…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged.

— David W. Orr

“Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold.”

— Michael Scott

“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

— Aristotle

“A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some people are made of greed but it doesn't mean they aren't good.”

— Pēteris Bitāns