#wealth

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#because #being #benefits #better #comes

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#chances #go #hallows #his #hollows

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#economy #modern #redistribution #time #wealth

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#bed #go #honest #i #pursuit

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#i #raised #resources #social #speak

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world. ↗

— George Osborne

#cheap #competitive #create #earn #go

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#away #care #comes #efforts #helps

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly. ↗

— John Prescott

#brought #develop #economies #evenly #every

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#ambition #appetite #assert #continue #earn