Quotes About Wealth

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

The rich and powerful are less likely, all other things being equal, to be arrested, convicted, or imprisoned. The poor are, holding everything else constant, more likely to be incarcerated, institutionalized, and sterilized.

Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was the ultimate Washington power broker. "I'm just a president," Roosevelt once told the journalist Lincoln Steffens, "and he has seen lots of presidents.

those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.

Expectations quickened dramatically after prospectors discovered diamonds in South Africa in 1867 and gold some two decades later.

For him, colonies existed for one purpose: to make him and his country rich. "Belgium doesn't exploit the world," he complained to one of his advisers. "It's a taste we have got to make her learn.

As Sanford saw his inherited fortune draining away, his connections at the Belgian court loomed larger for him.

But those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.

Of the riches Leopold hoped to find in the Congo, the one that gleamed most brightly in his imagination was ivory.

You shall love the Lord your God . . . with all your might," the Tsenerene interprets to mean "with all your resources": "You should love God with your money. Your money should not be more beloved to you than a mitzvah." It goes on to tell the story

As if on cue, in 1608, golf was introduced from Scotland for the first time, played around a 5-hole course on Blackheath, south of London. The leather balls, stuffed with feathers, lasted no more than one game each, particularly if it rained. At 5 shillings a time, it was a ruinously expensive but a strangely consoling pursuit, fitted to a country replete with contentment.

I cannot get used to the dispassion with which wealthy Greeks contemplate their impoverished compatriots;

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production

The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.

A nation is not made welthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased;