Wealth Quotes
-
If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
-
'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.
-
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.
-
Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?
-
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
-
Every participant had the opportunity to build relationships to help them grow and create wealth.
-
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.
-
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
-
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.
-
One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
-
You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
-
Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.
-
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
-
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
-
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
-
The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
-
The people who are working, paying their taxes are put into the system so that affordable housing could be built in neighborhoods that they probably live in that. That they may not want to, they may pay a premium so that they could live where they want to live and you end up with just another massive redistribution of wealth.
-
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
-
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
-
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
-
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
-
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.
-
We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who create wealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandate to appropriate wealth. They don’t have such an authoritative command. I don’t think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrol methods for nearly a century because they said they knew better. It is now obvious that they didn’t.
-
Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
