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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
Leland Stanford

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
Leland Stanford

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Gene Tierney

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

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
George Herbert

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
Leland Stanford

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
James Cash Penney

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

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
William Feather

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Jean Rostand

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
Mary Douglas

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Ernie Banks

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
Herbert Read