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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Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?
Fiorello LaGuardia
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You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Michael Dell
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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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There is not adequate whistleblower protection.
Valerie Plame
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The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Beatrice Webb