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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• Delusion
• Persist
• Squandering

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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

• 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
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Wealth

• 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

• 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
  • Family
  • Boy
  • Pride

• 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.

  

  Mahavira
  • Society
  • Same
  • 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

• What is wealth? A dream of fools.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Dream
  • Wealth
  • Fools

• 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

• For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Better

• 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

• The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Experience
  • Emotional
  • Rich

• I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so... I guess I'm lot poorer because of that, but... what astonishes me is that, at my age, I can still find things that interest me. And that's tremendous.

  

  Stephen Frears
  • Age
  • Film
  • Interest

• I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Make

• 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