Wealth Quotes - page 16

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)
I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture. View quote
Hugh Masekela
The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician. View quote
James J. Hill
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. View quote
James J. Hill
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality. View quote
James Loeb
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. View quote
John Howe
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth. View quote
John Olver
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital. View quote
Judith Rodin
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. View quote
James Cash Penney
Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes. View quote
Ken Salazar
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed. (Leland Stanford)
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. View quote
Leland Stanford
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done. View quote
Leland Stanford
Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends. View quote
Leland Stanford
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. View quote
Leland Stanford
Wealth won't give you satisfaction, creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most. View quote
Ma Huateng
Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth. View quote
Martin Parr
You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth. View quote
Master P
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. View quote
Michael Lee-Chin
Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite. View quote
Michael Nesmith
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy. (Nassau William Senior)
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments. View quote
Natalie Jeremijenko
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. View quote
Omar Bongo
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books. View quote
Omar Torrijos Herrera
Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy. View quote
Peter Blair Henry