No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless. Josiah Warren
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. Sigmund Freud
If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor. William Prescott
Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter. Lester Thurow