Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

• Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, Money, Selfish

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

• We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hard Work, Men, Creating

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

• I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Character, Mean

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

• That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wealth, Capitalism

• The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Temptation, Riches, Poverty

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