Unearned Wealth Quotes

#1. Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.

Hal Finney

#2. He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Ayn Rand

#3. I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

Francois Hollande

#4. The natural consequences of unearned wealth in undisciplined hands.

Ariel Allison

#5. Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace
a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

Edward Abbey

#6. Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;
But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can get.

Peter S. Beagle

#7. He looked sadly down at the street, as though it were his own bottomless sadness.

Franz Kafka

#8. That just proves there's something going on with you and Mr. Jackass.

Kody Keplinger

#9. Do well by doing good.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

Nathaniel Branden

#11. During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.

Steven Rattner

#12. My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

Agatha Christie

#13. Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.

Michel O'Brien

#14. We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

Abbi Glines

#15. Tengo did not know for certain whether he wanted to be a professional novelist, nor was he sure he had the talent to write fiction. What he did know was that he could not help spending a large part of every day writing fiction. To him, writing was like breathing.

Haruki Murakami

#16. The best part about performing is when you can fill the room with energy and you get that vibe back.

Georgia Nott

#17. It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

Julian Robertson

#18. I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.

Caitlin Hale

#19. It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.

Robbie Coltraine

#20. What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

Anne Rice

#21. Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Thomas Fuller