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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

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.

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.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

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.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.