Accumulation Quote by Robert Sheaffer

The growth of equality … calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment…

— Pope Francis

“When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy (as it did through much of history until the…

— Thomas Piketty

“Wealth does not just appear; it is drawn to those who cultivate a mindset of abundance. When your thoughts are aligned with prosperity, the…

— Linsey Mills

Growth begins with looking at those things we desire most and finding the bliss in working towards them, not in achieving them.

— Senora Roy

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

— Plautus

Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.

— Leo Varadkar

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

— Henry Wallich

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

— Publilius Syrus

Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest,…

— Peter Blair Henry

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a…

— George Monbiot

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and…

— Thomas Carlyle