Best members & wealth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are delighted to be working with PCG to continue to develop professionalism in the IT industry, and making BCS membership more accessible to PCG's IT members enabling them to gain industry-recognised endorsement of their credentials. BCS membership supports career development at every stage, offering a wealth of IT industry information, and access to an unrivalled network of IT professionals to help secure that next job or contract.”

“A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.”

Facts Wealth Cutting Members Function Increase Income Useless Acquire Fund Efficiency Distribution

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.”

Made Culture Opportunity Wealth Class Equal Members Equal Opportunity

Author:Edward Bellamy

“Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.”

Ifs Want Wells Wisdom Politics Community Wealth Economy Exercise Members Anxiety Liberalism Distribution Consumed Controllers

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.”

Together Wealth Poor Rich Mankind Members Office Mutual Commerce Intercourse Merchants Commonwealth Magnificence Good Office

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.”

“A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.”

Littles Long Country Matter Facts Individual Strong Wealth Common Family Land Members Weak Blind Unity Seven Treasure Plot Wealthy Torn Wretched Egotism

Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.”

“Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.”

States Remember Mother Father Wealth Opinion Principles Land Members Consequence Labor Killing Active

Author:William Petty

“It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.”

Men Wells Spirit Order Asks Wealth Clear Strange Members Notes Accepted Customs Documents Secrecy Hints Symbolism Admitting Fraternity Masons Lodges Masonry

Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

“Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.”

Government Wealth Numbers Members Capable Paid Producers Goods Goods And Services Systems Of Government

Author:Morgan Philpot

“Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.”

People Years Looks Government Three Challenges Wealth Millions Members Dollars Average Billions Income Federal Government Percentages Million Dollars Staggering Forbes Receptionists

Author:Warren Buffett

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

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