Wealth Quotes
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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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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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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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.'
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
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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.
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Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
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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.
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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.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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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.
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Every participant had the opportunity to build relationships to help them grow and create wealth.
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Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
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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.
