Wealth Quotes
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May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
Socrates
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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.
Plato
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In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
Mark Levin
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Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
Walter Wriston
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The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
J. Paul Getty
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The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.
Steve Martin
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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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Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
Arthur Desmond
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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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Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
Gaylord Nelson
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Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.
Emilio Pucci
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The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
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Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
Socrates
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Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.
Albert Einstein
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I distributed my wealth among my children and set aside a portion for endowment to run charity projects.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge
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All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.
Subcomandante Marcos
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In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
Edmund Phelps
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
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Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
Barton Gellman
