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"Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite."
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"People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products."
"It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?"
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