Wealth Quotes
3042 quotes by 1723 authors
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We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals…
— Barack Obama
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The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of…
— Anna Friel
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When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you…
— Dennis Kucinich
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I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are…
— Jenson Button
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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.…
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education;…
— Frederick Douglass
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Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our…
— Nelson Mandela
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And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth…
— Sarah Palin
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The growth of equality … calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment and…
— Pope Francis
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Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort —…
— George Saunders
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Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my…
— Martin Luther
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage,…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution…
— Irving Fisher
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Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a…
— L. Neil Smith
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.
— Michelle Kwan
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You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
— Jerry Falwell
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All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength,…
— Peter Kropotkin
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