A Quote by Gabriel Zaid

Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

Gabriel Zaid

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Above Accumulation Possibilities Wealth

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Gabriel Zaid
Mexican - Writer
Born: 1934

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Karl Marx

Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.

Kobe Bryant

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

Richard Armitage

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

Horace

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

Calvin Coolidge

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

Mark Lynas

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Robert Musil

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

Andrew Carnegie

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

John Maynard Keynes

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.

Pat Robertson

It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.

Jacques Ellul

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

Margaret Thatcher

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.