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Wealth Quotes
"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."
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"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."
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"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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"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
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"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."
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"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
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"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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"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"
8
"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."
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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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"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."
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"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."
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"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."
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"Money comes to those who know what to do with it."
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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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"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."
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"Is there any riches like redemption?"
6
"Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon."
6
"Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture."
6
"I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been."
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"You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit."
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"I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me."
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"He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that."
5
"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
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"The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services."
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"To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober."
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"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."
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