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In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc., they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with.

Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to spend money. It's a lot easier rationalizing spending a lot for a house.

In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.

In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem.

It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

It says anybody can make it, because we're all on a level playing field. But we're not on a level playing field. That 's precisely the point, and that's what the rich don't want to look at. They don't want to recognize that they're not producing wealth at all. They're hoarding wealth. That's different.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

I want to bring wealth back to our country so we can afford them.

I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .