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Wealth Quotes
"The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services."
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"Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer."
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"It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good."
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"When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life."
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"We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody."
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"The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions."
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"Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture."
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"Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite."
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"The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous."
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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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"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
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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 reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts."
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"Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!"
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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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"That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production."
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"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty."
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"The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters."
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"Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon."
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"Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence."
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"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."
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"I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash."
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"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."
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"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
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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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"We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth."
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"I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been."
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