In the Information Age, the true wealth of nations lies in people's ability to create, to communicate, to innovate.
On Wall Street it creates true wealth, not just the paper kind.
In fact, an interesting essay that came out this week says true wealth is just living within your means and being able to do what you love.
But, now, we know -- and you know -- that the true wealth of a nation is found in its human capital, in the skill, ingenuity, and determination of its people.
True wealth is rarely accumulated through short-term trading.
This small sheikhdom of some 906, 000 people demonstrates anew that the true source of wealth is not "natural resources" but human ingenuity.
Bryan raged against bankers and the gold standard, enemies, he said, of the only true producers of wealth and prosperity, the American farmer.
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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You know immediately that all the things you usually think are necessary in order for you to feel fulfilled and satisfied (wealth, power, true love, more stuff) are truly icing on the cake.
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True, money will continue to flow into these wealth managers, but the concern is its hefty growth may slow down.
That is true, but it only explains a part of the staggering wealth being accumulated by the privileged classes.
The best measure of a currency's true value is its price in gold, a standard measure of wealth for 4, 000 years.
This is almost certainly true whether you define the poorest person in the world on an income or wealth basis.
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Which would really be quite extraordinary: it would require that most of the top 1% actually have negative wealth, debts larger than their assets, for this to be true.
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The question now is whether this will hold true in the future, as nations compete to develop new ways to produce more wealth with less energy.
His latest survey identified 270 dollar billionaires but the true total, he says, is probably double that because many Chinese are secretive about their wealth.
But while it's exciting to contemplate the giving nature of Gates and Buffett, if their true desire is to help their fellow man, they should hoard every penny of their significant wealth.
On the contrary, true conservatives and liberals have historically known well that spending, for example on infrastructure, builds future wealth for individuals and businesses.
We are always speaking in relative terms, and cordoning off the entire population of America and lumping us on one side and then taking the average wealth of everybody else and lumping that on the other is a fine way to blur true distinctions and actual class issues.
And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight, we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
True, Italian governments have proved adept over the years at finding ways to tap the country's substantial wealth to service its eye-popping levels of sovereign debt, but this has been largely achieved by introducing ever higher and more complex taxes that only encourage tax evasion while simultaneously sucking the life out of the economy.
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