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Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.
The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.
My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.
Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that.
My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup / Upon each sturdy stem.
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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.
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.
Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.