#weal

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ↗

— Adam Smith

#first #gold #labour #money #original

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#desirable #directly #human #indirectly #reckoned

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#discoveries #gain #great #inventions #material

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#away #country #federal #federal government #give

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#child #citizen #controlling #existence #government

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#everyone #first #future #looking #wealthy

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. ↗

— David Miliband

#austerity #back #britain #country #danger

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#disturbing #gentleness #great #means #refinement

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society. ↗

— Tabare Vazquez

#economic #economic growth #enough #growth #society

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#live #make #normal #people #reward