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" A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things. "
Elsa Peretti
" Ability is a poor man's wealth. "
John Wooden
" A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms. "
Nouriel Roubini
" A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. "
John Foxe
" Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development. "
Haile Selassie
" After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way. "
Shiv Nadar
" Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions. "
Ron Paul
" All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed. "
Leland Stanford
" All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us. This is very important. "
Joe Kaeser
" All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. "
Robert Collier
" All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. "
George Grey
" All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. "
Alfred Marshall
" All wealth is the product of labor. "
John Locke
" A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart. "
Charlie Shrem
" America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. "
Woodrow Wilson
" A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point. "
Tino Sehgal
" An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. "
E. F. Schumacher
" An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours. "
Nicola Sturgeon
" An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results. "
Edmund Phelps
" Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional. "
Donald Berwick
" Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it. "
Richard Parks Bland
" A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability. "
Helen Fisher
" As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it. "
Roshni Nadar
" As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite that owns the all-powerful algorithms, creating unprecedented social and political inequality. Alternatively, the algorithms might themselves become the owners. "
Yuval Noah Harari
" A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL. "
Eliot Spitzer
" As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness. "
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
" Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing. "
Niall Ferguson
" As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life's ultimate goal. "
Munshi Premchand
" As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich. "
Angus Deaton
" As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. "
Barry Commoner
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