Individual Wealth Quotes

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

You don't need to depend on a label, because you're making that money on your own.

Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of acquiring still more capital. But, before a certain moment in historical time, it had never been easy for such individuals to do this successfully.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.