Andrew Bacevich Quotes

We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

Andrew Bacevich

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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.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Wealth
  • Research

• Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Good
  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• 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
  • Pride
  • Wealth
  • Creation

• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Best
  • Wealth

• I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Believe
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• 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
  • May
  • Wealth
  • Products

• 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
  • Why
  • Advice
  • Wealth

• We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

  

  Tacitus
  • Happy
  • Wealth
  • Adversity

• 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.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Country
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Wealth

• I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Proud
  • Wealth
  • Transparent

• Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

  

  Aristotle
  • Money
  • Parent
  • Wealth

• In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• Whatever you think is delusion.

  

  Dainin Katagiri
  • Thinking
  • Delusion

• To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Lies

• People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Movie
  • Albums

• My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

  

  Edward Dyer
  • Live
  • Die
  • Perfect

• A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Life
  • Society
  • Wealth

• Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.

  

  Catherine Mayer
  • Age
  • Culture
  • Wealth

• I am proud of what I've done.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Done
  • Proud

• I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen.

  

  Summer Phoenix
  • Risk
  • Mistake
  • Happen

• We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Wealth
  • Delusion
  • Persist