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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

I find man utterly unaware of what his wealth is or his fundamental capability is. He says time and again, "We can't afford it." For instance, we are saying now that we can't afford to do anything about pollution but after the costs of not doing something about pollution have multiplied many fold beyond what it would cost to correct it now, we will spend many fold what it would cost us now to correct it.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

I'm not really picky. Just as long as it's not the harder style of rap - anything that's about being on the come-up or your wealth doesn't go that well with marimbas.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.

In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.

In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.