J. Paul Getty Quotes
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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
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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.
Mahavira
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
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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.
Edmund Phelps
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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.
Barton Gellman
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
Socrates
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Wealth creation is not a business suited to those whose skill set
consists of voting “present.” It requires decision making, risk taking,
hard information, discipline, insight, and intelligence.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.
J Mascis
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At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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American myths have never been colorless.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
J. Paul Getty