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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

The grand larceny that occurred in Russia, the corruption that resulted in nine or ten people getting enormous wealth through loans-for-shares, was condoned because it allowed the reelection of Boris Yeltsin.

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being

The greatest health is wealth.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees.

The left does not like self-reliance and individuality and the disparities in wealth and income that result. So the left has targeted capitalism forever on the pretext that it's unfair, that it's unequal, that it is mean-spirited, that it is white patriarchal Christianity - and all of these horrible, rotten things.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.' Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn't that incredible? Why wouldn't everyone get the book?!

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.

There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

There is no wealth but life.

The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth?

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.