#weal

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty #bias #bourgeois #capitalism #creativity

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. ↗

— William Saroyan

#wealth #art

View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#beauty-in-nature #eyes #gold #riches #wealth

Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay. ↗

— Thucydides

#governments #rulers #business

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#contributions #society #wealth #business

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. ↗

— John Piper

#giving #mission #missionary #money #wealth

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#boss #business-advice #career-ladder #fortune #wealth

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ↗

— T. Harv Eker

#spiritual-growth #wealthy #change