Wealth Quotes - Page 42

In the words of Louis Brandeis, the Supreme Court justice, we have a choice between a democracy or vast concentrations of wealth. We have vast concentrations of wealth which has bought its way into our democracy with its political leaders who exemplify the merger of that economic and political elite.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

It's definitely an honour to represent my home country once again in the Commonwealth Games. It is going to be a magical experience and to be considered as a role model is a reward in itself.

The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

We live in a time when there are tech companies that have an unprecedented accumulation of power, wealth, and information with basically no competition. It's not in their nature to self-regulate, to break themselves up, or ask for less information. It's only in their nature to grow and gain more information from us, because the more that they know about us, honestly the better they can market to us and sell to us and make us better consumers.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth?

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.

Dignity is more important than wealth.

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.