Fortunes Quote by William Graham Sumner Download Open image “The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.” — William Graham Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortunes Large Thing Wealth
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers. — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely. — Brad Hall Copy Share Image
Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who when abroad… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and… — William Kidd Copy Share Image
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
![“The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and…” quote by William Graham Sumner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9b4/william-graham-sumner-5011_can-do_the-yearning-after-equality-in-economic_454035.jpg)
