Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions. The word wealth is derived from the old English weal, which is from an Indo-European word stem. An individual, community, region or country that possesses an abundance of such possessions or resources is known as wealthy.
The concept of wealth is of significance in all areas of economics, and clearly so for growth economics and development economics. Yet the meaning of wealth ...
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- It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. ,
- Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. ,
- Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay. ,
- There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger. ,
- What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ,
- Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty. ,
- Wealth unused might as well not exist. ,
- Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more. ,
- Where there are friends there is wealth. ,
- The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.
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