The phrase "amass riches" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of accumulating wealth or valuable assets over time.
Example: "Through years of hard work and smart investments, he was able to amass riches beyond his wildest dreams."
Alternatives: "accumulate wealth" or "build a fortune."
In the land-rush phase of Russian capitalism, "oligarchs" emerged and amassed riches by grabbing them any way they could.
It also ignored that large and complex banks are a problem long before they fail: an overgrown banking sector diverts resources from more productive uses and, in the process, amasses riches at the expense of everyone else.
In language rarely heard from major American presidential candidates, Sanders has indicted an economic system that has produced record levels of inequality even as those at the top have amassed riches greater than at any time in the past 100 years.
In a country that has struggled to shrug off economic hardship and corruption since the overthrow of the former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, analysts said Mr. Miskovic had become a potent emblem of the unhealthy link between business interests and the state that has allowed a handful of tycoons to amass enormous riches.
In Matthew's Sermon on the Mount, he tells them to give up their jobs and live like the birds of the air and the lilies of the field; they must not amass perishable riches on earth, but lay up treasure for themselves in heaven.
Despite the current rally, the three-year bear market has made the masses enormously receptive to the time-tested shtick about how "sophisticated" investors lucky enough to get into hedge funds amass vast riches even when everyone else is losing money.
But it is the majority that played by the rules, paid into Medicare, into Social Security and into other essential programs, and yet still suffered the most while the ones who caused the financial crisis continued to enjoy their tax breaks and amass their riches.
Whatever ʿUmar's original motives may have been, his followers seem to have been as much concerned with amassing riches and power as with converting their subjects to Islām.
