Amount Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in…

— Carlos Slim

We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through…

— David Mamet

The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into…

— Ludwig von Mises

The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our…

— Jacob Schiff

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

— Susan George

If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly reach his…

— Louis O. Kelso

If there are not jobs or adequate forms of social protection, there is not enough income to create the consumption base that drives demand…

— Sharan Burrow

“People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society has given…

— Stuart Chase

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

— Anonymous

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken…

— Edward Carpenter

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when…

— Henry Hazlitt

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

— Azim Premji