#weal

King Solomon's life reminds me of wisdom, wealth, women, woes. ↗

— Toba Beta

#wealth #wisdom #woes #women #life

I saw that office display the other day at the modern gallery. I just didn’t know what I was looking at. A still life of a secretary’s cluttered desk? A sunset over a mountainous landscape of cash? I don’t understand richy people. Think they’re so profound, so much better than everybody else. They’re just trying to compensate for their melancholy, eccentric natures, their loneliness. It must be awful to own a fortune 500 company. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#avant-garde #business #funny #wealth #art

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#food #how #i #i came #knowledge

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#define #easy #enough #indeed #pastime

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. ↗

— Empedocles

#beliefs #dark #divine #gained #gods

[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection. ↗

— James A. Michener

#money #wealth #freedom

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#ethics #freedom #individual-rights #ownership #philosophy

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#best #commonly #competition #does #fittest

I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in any small way succeeded is to me a prize beyond measure, the most wonderful wealth that I could ask for, a form of prosperity that I would wish for the whole world to experience and enjoy. ↗

— Roz Savage

#prosperity #wealth #experience