The accumulation and cross-generational transmission of wealth in the United States has gone way too far. When a young hedge-fund manager can take home a sum reminiscent of the gross national product of a small country, something is askew.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.
One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
I personally think that people who are inheriting the wealth must have an agreement on how that wealth will flow from generation to generation, how they would like to spend it, and have similar philosophies around philanthropy to ensure continuity and scaling up.
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
