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Wealth Quotes
"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
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"Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile."
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"If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are."
47
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
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"I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books."
26
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
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"We are all of us richer than we think we are."
18
"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
16
"Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess."
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"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."
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"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
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"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."
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"A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy."
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"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing."
13
"I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me."
12
"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
12
"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."
11
"Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer."
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"We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
11
"Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth."
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"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."
10
"Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache."
9
"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"
9
"Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins."
9
"Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture."
9
"I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put."
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"Money comes to those who know what to do with it."
9
"Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends."
8
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."
8
"The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services."
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