Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.
When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times deeply injurious to the very people he swore to serve. After all, Reaganomics set in motion one of the largest wealth redistributions in American history, away from the poor and toward the rich.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.
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.
I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.
I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.
We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.
A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.
During the two centuries since the publication of 'The Wealth of Nations,' the main activity of economists, it seems to me, has been to fill the gaps in Adam Smith's system, to correct his errors and to make his analysis vastly more exact.
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
