Wealth Quote by Matt Ridley Download Open image ““Merchants and craftsmen make prosperity; chiefs, priests and thieves fritter it away.”” — Matt Ridley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wealth
“O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future-verily, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“it is the blood of the peasant, the sweat of the weaver, the flesh of the artisan, the words of the poet, the trade… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows?” — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“industry and utility are the angels of death who, with fiery swords, prevent man's return to Paradise.” — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If you attend a meeting of evolutionary biologists somewhere in America, you might be lucky and spot a tall, gray-whiskered, smiling man bearing a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetition continues sometimes just six times, sometimes… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self esteem, then get used to the idea that you are also descended… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Well, in OUR country,’ said Alice, still panting a little, ‘you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you ran very fast for a long time,… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“There is no fortune greater than peace; there is no force greater than peace; there is no excellent tapas greater than peace; there is… — Muruganar Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You can criticize Trump and his wealth all day long, but you can't say he hasn't worked. You can say that about the Clintons. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
