A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.
But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as unable to define as to guide, the toiler is most heavily handicapped in the very start.
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker. . . Labor is the only source of wealth.
Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.
Golden roofs break men's rest.
Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes-indeed, deletes-the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. . . . Hoarding is idolatry.
That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.
There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.
I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
Most people who have wealth came from nothing or their parents came from nothing. And this idea that anyone can grow wealth is central to what we do.
The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.