#wealth

Where wealth accumulates, men decay. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#men #wealth #where

Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#family-relationships #friendship #knowledge #money #relationships

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#bubbles #burst #concentrating #country #down

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product. ↗

— Brian Harris

#creators #demand #encouraging #failure #higher

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#commonwealth #comparison #destined #distinguished #foundation

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#beggar #both #envy #guilt #his

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#cuts #daily #daily life #fish #how

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. ↗

— Hesiod

#god-given #much #seized #should #wealth

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. ↗

— John Heywood

#dirt #happy #loss #man #sages

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#does #how #know #live #living