Julia Gillard (Julia Eileen Gillard) Quotes
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
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Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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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.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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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.
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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?
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
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With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
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Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
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I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.
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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.
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Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
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My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
