But wealth has to be produced before it can be traded or stolen.
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But wealth is in fact a source of more diverse influences than the other sources that would take its place.
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But wealth circulates with inconceivable rapidity, and experience shows that it is rare to find two succeeding generations in the full enjoyment of it.
Populations grow, he said, geometrically, but wealth only grows arithmetically.
Our economy will still generate exponentially growing amounts of wealth, but the wealth will be passed to us not as wages, but as income on investments.
Perhaps each society's richer people are also happier because happiness comes not from absolute wealth but from relative wealth--recall H.
Greater prosperity is creating tremendous wealth in the country, but that wealth also translates into higher rents as cash-rich Chinese bid up property prices.
Gold mining stocks, with their ability to share profits by distributing dividends, not only preserve wealth, but also create wealth.
But the wealth of choices can lead to "indecisive" customers who struggle over every detail.
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But as wealth returned it brought the desire for a more conservative and ostentatious lifestyle.
The media would surely demonize such an individual, but his wealth motive would be our gain.
But Barclays Wealth apparently has not been paid any of the fees since Barclays acquired the unit.
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The list does not look at bank accounts but identifiable wealth such as shares, land, property and racehorses.
But comprehensive wealth management has never been as simple as successfully managing investments, which itself is no easy task.
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But great wealth doesn't always correspond to great understanding of money--Gates and Winfrey are successful because of other talents, not necessarily because they really grok greenbacks.
People can decry the profit motive as an outworking of greed, or blast income inequality as unjust, but creating wealth is the only true cure for poverty.
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But the wealth of content provided was truly impressive.
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The process of recreating these ballets involves not only studying the original materials left by the choreographers and designers, but a wealth of detail in contemporary newspapers, drawings, diaries, letters and personal recollections.
If you look at income gains in America over the last 10 years, you will find that, on average, people got richer, but the wealth created during that period did not get distributed widely.
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San Francisco has felt the effects of the Internet boom sooner and more intensely than almost anywhere else, but the wealth that the new economy has created is steadily fanning out and may generate the same tensions elsewhere.
Yes, I realize one may argue that the stock market is not an accurate measure of the economy but the wealth effect is powerful and a rising stock market has definitely improved the general mood of the investing public thereby allowing them to put some of their new found savings to work.
In this new world, where there is great wealth generated by the machines, but where that wealth is controlled by a small minority of the top investors, how will society cope, when an income from a job, is no longer available, as a means for participation in the economy?
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Doing so not only makes them disappear from the wealth-creating sector but also makes them wealth consumers.
Many economists, Ms Gandhi and Mr Walton point out, find a positive association between growth and self-made billionaire wealth, but a negative one with inherited wealth.
But for others the internet and the dotcom revolution has not meant instant wealth but a rather painful lesson in the harsh world of financial wheeler dealers.
Money is not wealth but a useful unit of account tracking our human transactions.
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But centers of wealth tend to place undue emphasis on wealth as a measure of status.
The goal of free trade or voluntary exchange is not to create jobs but to create wealth.
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