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"When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes."
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"People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products."
"When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession."
"The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people, everyone else looks for work and invests in survival."
"For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth."
"It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?"
"Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich."
"There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men."
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"During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent."
"After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed."
"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction."
"When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes."
"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without."
"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."
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