Wealth Quotes

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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it… — William Wirt
No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense… — Lester B. Pearson
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth. — Nassau William Senior
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of… — Nassau William Senior
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general… — Nassau William Senior
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the… — William H. Seward
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily… — Leland Stanford
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive… — Leland Stanford
The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means… — Sepp Blatter
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of… — Felix Adler
But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you… — Anita Roddick
Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile. — Abu Bakar Bashir
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess;… — George Grey
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home. — Timothy Murphy
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be… — Richard Leakey
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high… — John Olver
We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and… — Josiah Strong
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. — Isaac D'Israeli
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. — Robert Cecil
The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make. — Brian Koslow

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