Able Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“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

The wealth of a country is its working people.

— Theodor Herzl

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of…

— Edmund Burke

Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must…

— Lord Chesterfield

There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money…

— Sheldon Richman

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

— Steven Biko

Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor…

— David Hume

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty…

— Martin Luther

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

— Brian Tracy