#wealthy

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? ↗

— Jack Welch

#country #only #ordained #ought #said

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#bill #class #congress #deductions #deficit

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#behind #broadcast #closed #commercial #congressional

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

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#asked #cannot #continued #costs #development

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#everyone #first #future #looking #wealthy

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. ↗

— David Miliband

#austerity #back #britain #country #danger

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

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#culture #equality #guilt #refinement #rich