Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Edward Kennedy

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Ban Ki-moon

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Arundhati Roy

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Billy Sunday

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

David Ricardo

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Anthony Trollope

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Bill Gross

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Boris Johnson

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

Charles Babbage

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.