Community Quote by Thorstein Veblen

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job,…

— Theodor Adorno

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

— Confucius

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

— Horace

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

“Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material…

— Sunday Adelaja

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent…

— Oscar Wilde

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

— Anonymous

“The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too…

— Hosea Ballou

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

— John Lothrop Motley

If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one…

— Azim Premji