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Wealth Quotes
"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
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"We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody."
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"No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary."
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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 possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions."
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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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"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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"I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
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"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."
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"I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to."
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"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."
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"When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit."
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"But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties."
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"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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"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it."
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"Having money is a way of being free of money."
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"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."
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"The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals."
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"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
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"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
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"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."
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"Materialism allows for a greater vision!"
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"We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth."
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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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"I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands."
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"Many a rich man's bed is bigger than many a poor woman's bedroom; his bedroom, her house."
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"Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can't resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve."
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"There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men."
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"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."
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