Wealth Quotes
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
Tavis Smiley -
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
Edmund Phelps -
Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
Dan Gertler -
Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
Edmund Phelps -
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
Steve Martin -
There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
Dane DeHaan
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust -
The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
Ian Schrager -
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
Foster Friess -
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.
Katharine Susannah Prichard -
People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!
Stuart Wilde -
Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
John Maynard Keynes -
Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
Tony Blair -
I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
Ted Turner -
I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
Park Geun-hye -
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.
Ben Bernanke -
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
Victor Davis Hanson
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
Dan Gilbert -
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith -
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln -
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
Sappho