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[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Between 2013 and 2015, the wealthiest 14 people saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is their wealth increase, got it? Not what they are worth. Increase. That $157 billion is more wealth than is owned by the bottom 40 percent of the American people. One family, the Walton family, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

Black love is black wealth

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

By its very nature and design, Network Marketing is a strikingly Fair, Democratic, Socially Responsible system of generating wealth.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense