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Wealth Quotes

What money builds, and what it costs.

This selection isn't shy about contradiction: one voice describes wealth and poverty living side by side in Mexico with real cordiality, while another credits an entire way of life for producing greater prosperity and comfort, in the vein of Great quotes.

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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.

Quotes by Aeschylus

9

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Quotes by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

8

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Quotes by Adam Smith

7

Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.

Quotes by Adam Davidson

Government Quotes

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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

Quotes by Abu Bakar Bashir

5

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Abraham Lincoln

4

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Quotes by Abraham Cahan

3

The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.

Quotes by Abby Martin

2

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Great Quotes

1

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

Quotes by Zong Qinghou

A labor-movement line pushes back against concentrated corporate wealth, and a fourth warns what happens when riches pool among too few. See also Government and Man.