The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: First Contact (1996 Film).
Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding’s selection of a cabinet. – George William Norris
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you’re willing to stand up within the group and say, ‘It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,’ or ‘It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,’ it’s crucial to say that. – Henry Louis Gates
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner. – Henry Giroux
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened. – Helene D. Gayle
When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it’s amazing. – Hill Harper
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. – Henry David Thoreau
When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used. – Goodluck Jonathan
There’s a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful. – Grant Hill
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. – Gregor Strasser
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – Herbert Simon
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn’t heard it. – Helen Reddy
I felt there’s a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I’d be a jerk not to take advantage of it. – Herman Wouk
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. – George Grey
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. – Henry George
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability. – Helen Fisher
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. – Henry Ford
The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate. – Graydon Carter
In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth. – George Emil Palade
We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people’s wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor. – Goodluck Jonathan
There’s a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that’s out there. – Hill Harper
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people. – Hank Johnson
Housing wealth – the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus their mortgage debt – is the most important source of wealth for all but those at the very top. – Janet Yellen
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution. – Jonathan Sacks
