Diogenes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
Edmund Phelps -
Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
Victor Ponta -
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
J. Paul Getty -
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Ovid -
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
Felix Dennis
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
Zong Qinghou -
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong -
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Omar Torrijos Herrera -
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
Nassau William Senior
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
Felix Dennis -
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln -
No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
J. B. Pritzker -
My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
J. Paul Getty -
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler -
In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
Edmund Phelps
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
Tamra Davis -
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
Plato -
I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
E. G. Marshall -
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.
Elizabeth Zimmermann -
Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
Diogenes