Beatrice Webb Quotes
The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
Gavin Hood
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
Edmund Phelps
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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
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
Ma Huateng
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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
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
K. Flay
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse
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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.
Nassau William Senior
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
Cara Buono
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
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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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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
J. B. Pritzker
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
J. Paul Getty
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
Will Durant
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Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
Sam Brownback
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
William Butler Yeats
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The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Beatrice Webb