Sentence examples for act of wealth from inspiring English sources

The best investment opportunities seem so great it's almost an unfair, magical act of wealth creation.

As he explained in a 2011 interview, Hammerbacher left Facebook before its IPO -- what he called "an egregious act of wealth destruction" -- because he wanted to spend his time doing something more significant than figuring out why people poke each other on the social network.

Despite the impact of robotics on manufacturing, the creation of goods is still the fundamental act of wealth creation and it requires a good deal of back-office and technical support.

But these acts of wealth redistribution, arguably the most revolutionary acts of the French Revolution, never went into operation.

It's also a time when Muslims make donations known as zakat; the giver is believed to be purified through the act of transferring wealth to the poor.

The only truly safe currencies are those that can act as a store of wealth that cannot be diluted by fiat and whose purchasing power a government cannot corrupt.

Richard Templar says in the Rules of Wealth act as if you don't need the money and people will no longer have power over you.

In a pastoral community, an important component of financial capital is livestock, which acts as a store of wealth and buffer against bad times (Ellis 2000).

There was an increasing recognition of the complexities of the financial management of the state and of the possibility that the way that the state taxed and acted influenced the production of wealth.

There is another reason that high donations may be perceived negatively by others: if donation amount acts as a signal of wealth [ 28], individuals may use donation amount as a signal of success and skill and by implication to promote prestige [ 7, 29].

Mill takes it for granted that individuals act rationally in their pursuit of wealth and luxury and avoidance of labor, rather than in a disjointed or erratic way, but he has no theory of consumption, or explicit theory of rational economic choice, and his theory of resource allocation is rather thin.