#wealth

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#ahead #distribution #existing #factories #human

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God. ↗

— James Brown

#believed #cause #couple #down #ever

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#applied #atlanta #become #came #canada

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#centered #century #commonwealth #crop #family

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#hardship #i #material #material wealth #mean

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#commands #free #indeed #our #poor

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#commercial world #everywhere #found #interest #should

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#contemporary music #diffuse #get #help #interested

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#friend #his #loses #more #much

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ↗

— Confucius

#badly #country #governed #poverty #something