Wealth Quotes
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .
Zoe Akins
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
Socrates
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
Fidel Castro
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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
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
Edmund Phelps
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
Caitriona Balfe
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
Foster Friess
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It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
Gautama Buddha
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The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
Natalia Ginzburg
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
Tavis Smiley
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I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.
Nandan Nilekani
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D'Israeli
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His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.
Hannah Arendt
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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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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
Edmund Phelps
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
Abraham Cahan
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
Ian Schrager
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
Dan Gertler
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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
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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
Ramez Naam