Ability Quote by Will Durant

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability…

— Will Durant

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

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

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view…

— Will Durant

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

— Noam Chomsky

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money…

— Sheldon Richman

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

— Brian Tracy

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

— William Randolph Hearst

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

— Calvin Coolidge

Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and…

— Denis Diderot