Wealth Quotes
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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?
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
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A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
