Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart.
It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.
