Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?
Myron Scholes
BuildingSocietyRoadBetterWealth
The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.
Monica Crowley
WealthTacticsBarack ObamaObama
Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
HomeManBraveWarriorCrownWealth
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
Lewis H. Lapham
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The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.
Mohamed El-Erian
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.
Edward Young
LearningEnjoyWealthKnowLittle
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
Leland Stanford
OrganizationSocietyWealthLabor
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
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When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.
Ben Shapiro
ComplacencyChoicesRebelWealthWay
There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
Ken Robinson
WorkCreativityTalentWealthUs
When you're accustomed to wealth, you don't show it, right? That's why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it's almost like, 'Don't show wealth - that's crass.'
Jay-Z
SchoolYouWealthWhiteSneakers
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.
Ben Bernanke
AccountingTraditionWealthFocused
I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.
Kevin O'Leary
TruthYouWealthBedGoWant
Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.
Janet Yellen
OpportunityEffortLuckWealthSkill
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips
PowerPeopleAmericanWealthLabor
I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded. They're very worried about how people are going to react to what they say.
Jamie Johnson
PeopleThinkWealthWantPersonal
Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.
Jose Angel Gurria
GreatBuildingWealthInvestment
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Tabare Vazquez
GrowthSocietyEnoughYouWealth
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.
James Dyson
ChangeCultureMoneyYouWealthTry
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
DeWitt Clinton
KnowledgePowerShadowSpaceWealth
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
Ramez Naam
IdeasEndWealthCreateNewLimit
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Herbert A. Simon
PovertyAttentionInformationWealth
I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.
Drew Barrymore
InsecurityProblemsSolutionWealth
Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
Quincy Jones
MistakesYouWealthCherishOver
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