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“Wealth should not be measured by possessions but by the opportunities one creates for others. A prosperous society is built not on the riches of a few, but on the dignity, security, and chances given to the many. True abundance is shared abundance.”

Last update Sept. 26, 2026. History

James Gilliland (1952) American academic and author

Source: Mayan Majix, Comment on Recent Extra Terrestrial Activity http://www.mayanmajix.com/art4538.html

“Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity … a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk--they follow her.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 191.

“When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73

“Broadly, the Long Tail is about abundance. Abundant shelf space, abundant distribution, abundant choice.”

Chris Anderson book The Long Tail

Source: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006), Ch. 8, p. 143

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”

B.K.S. Iyengar book Light on Yoga

Source: Light on Yoga

“We're headed toward a two-tiered society -- a society that's destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged and creating welfare for the rich.”

Charles G. Koch (1935) American businessman

“Many men of importance were gathered there to be seen talking with other men of importance, resulting in an abundance of conspicuous but immaterial discourse.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 4 : the cooper, p. 40

“Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 38

“One of the strangest disparities of history lies between the sense of abundance felt by older and simpler societies and the sense of scarcity felt by the ostensibly richer societies of today.”

Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar

Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), pp. 14-15.
Context: One of the strangest disparities of history lies between the sense of abundance felt by older and simpler societies and the sense of scarcity felt by the ostensibly richer societies of today. Charles Péguy has referred to modern man’s feeling of “slow economic strangulation,” his sense of never having enough to meet the requirement which his pattern of life imposes on him. Standards of consumption which he cannot meet, and which he does not need to meet, come virtually in the guise of duties.

“The thesis of this book is simply that Greek and Hebrew civilisations are parallel structures built upon the same East Mediterranean foundation. …the evidence is so abundant that our problem is one of selection and arrangement.”

Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) American linguist

Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

“Wealth should not be measured by possessions but by the opportunities one creates for others. A prosperous society is built not on the riches of a few, but on the dignity, security, and chances given to the many. True abundance is shared abundance.”

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