"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."

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"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."

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"Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive."

Seth Godin, American Writer

Wealth, Freedom, Resources, Lifestyle

"Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Wealth, Poor, Life, Balance

"When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Wealth, Money, Wind, Conviction, Existence

"I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building."

George Eliot, British Author

Wealth, Regret, Truth, Action

"Greatness can only be bought through time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The difference between a rich man and a poor man is that; a rich man only thinks of how to spend money while a poor man, thinks of how to make money."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

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"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value."

William Greider, American Author

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"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."

John Zimmerman, American Athlete

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"It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character."

Character, Class, First

"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."

Negative, May, Production

"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century."

Progress, Hope, Ignorance, May

"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."

Wealth,

"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."

Purpose, Absence, May

"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."

Change, Money, Power, Time

"All labour is directed towards producing some effect."

Labor, Effect

"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."

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"Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time."

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"In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old."

Life, Age, Time, People