#weal

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#aware #extent #how #i #i am

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#building #come #crisis #economic #economic crisis

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#choose #comes #competence #elements #hand

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#covetousness #excess #wealth

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#civil #custom #force #individual #international

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. ↗

— Karl Marx

#combining #develops #into #labourer #only

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#definite #medium #rational #real #representative

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#being #circulating #did #ever #invested

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#art #away #branch #brother #cared

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#completely #cut #deficit #deficit reduction #face