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"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."
"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."
"I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don't need to waste your time like they do."
"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."
"Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times."
"And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors," said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent."
Explore more quotes by William Greider
"If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder."
"The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned."
"A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?"
"Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare."
"In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job."
"The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations."
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