Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.
In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
Wealth and compassion are opposites.
Low interest rates wipe out savers and devastate middle-class workers. The banksters have orchestrated this wealth transference of trillions, from the poor to the very wealthy. At the expense of everybody who isn't at the top.
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
Palestinians have no wealth or power.
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
