It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth. – Johann Rupert
We have seen… that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources. – Josiah Strong
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. – Moliere
I didn’t grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that’s great wealth. – Matt Damon
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor – you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse. – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
I’m a wealth creator. I’m not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don’t spend money like other billionaires. I’m probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living. – John Caudwell
The death tax punishes the American dream – making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. – Kit Bond
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. – Lucretius
In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition. – Kathryn Lasky
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors. – John Sergeant Wise
In these times of the ‘Great Recession’, we shouldn’t be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don’t. I find it patriotic. – Mark Cuban
Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It’s a virtuous cycle. – Lloyd Blankfein
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. – Keith Henson
For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families. – Jeff Merkley
Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches. – Kellyanne Conway
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created. – Jeane Kirkpatrick
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation. – John Caudwell
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. – John Zimmerman
We didn’t create all this wealth; we capitalized on an environment that permitted us to create it. – John Morgridge
The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, ‘Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.’ – Martin O’Malley
People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won’t get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce. – Katherine Boo
For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few. – Marco Rubio
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. – John Foxe
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. – Li Keqiang
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. – Martin O’Malley
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter. – Lemn Sissay
Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few. – Malorie Blackman
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. – Margaret Thatcher
