The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. – Ezra Taft Benson
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, ‘Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I’ve earned slightly more wealth.’ I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars. – Dustin Moskovitz
The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world – its economic, military position, as well as America’s influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He’s actually the architect of it. – Dinesh D’Souza
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. – Noam Chomsky
Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn’t also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off? – Myron Scholes
I don’t like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living. – Francois Hollande
Wealth won’t give you satisfaction; creating a good product that’s well received by users is what matters most. – Ma Huateng
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. – Eugene Jarecki
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. – Edward Blake
I have a wealth of experience, but I do not want to coach. I rather like the role of recruiter. – Gianluigi Buffon
I’m making a case against how money managers are handling customers’ money. 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. – Michael Lee-Chin
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in – or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of – an economic system we routinely deplore. – Geoff Dyer
I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth. – Fidel Castro
It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector… and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good. – Michele Bachmann
If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment or satisfaction, then clearly there’s a moral failing in the world in which we live. – Peter Singer
Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status. – Edmund Phelps
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. – Gordon B. Hinckley
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation. – Felix Dennis
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. – Eric Alterman
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. – Epictetus
The idea of a world where all people are alike – in wealth or in anything else – is a fantasy for the stupid. – P. J. O’Rourke
College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives. – Gordon Gee
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. – Nassau William Senior
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production. – Nassau William Senior
A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don’t wear such things. – Elsa Peretti
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. – Edmund Burke
