Money Quote by Peter L. Bernstein

“If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth,…

— Peter L. Bernstein

“Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Wealth follows value that people demand on a consistent basis.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response…

— Thorstein Veblen

“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction — of…

— George Orwell

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of…

— David Ricardo

“The measure of wealth is the ability to afford ones' mistakes.”

— Elyse Wilk

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other…

— Will Durant

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

— Anita Roddick

“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

“The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating…

— Pico Iyer