Wealth Quotes
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
Ramez Naam -
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
Ramez Naam -
I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
Zong Qinghou -
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke -
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
Edmund Phelps -
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
Edmund Phelps -
Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
Napoleon Hill -
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.
Hannah Arendt -
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
Warren Farrell -
I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.
Nandan Nilekani
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People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!
Stuart Wilde -
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
Abraham Cahan -
A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
Adam Ostrow -
The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
Natalia Ginzburg -
Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
Tony Blair -
In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.
Dale T. Mortensen
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
Socrates -
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
Edmund Phelps -
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.
William Graham Sumner -
I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
B. Wayne Hughes