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Wealth Quotes
"...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?"
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"The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started."
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"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."
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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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"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."
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"I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to."
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"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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"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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"Wealth is relative. Some people aren't really rich, they just have poor neighbors."
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"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
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"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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"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen."
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"Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!"
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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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"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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"The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician."
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"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed."
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"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."
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"Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness."
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"To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood."
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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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"It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth."
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"Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it."
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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."
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"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."
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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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"Is there any riches like redemption?"
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