#wealth

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 heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price. ↗

— Dan Miller

#america #blessed #border #both #both sides

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon. ↗

— Richard Neal

#based #inherited #upon #wealth

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. ↗

— Riccardo Muti

#commitment #more #nobility #ostentation #rather