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Wealth Quotes
"Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile."
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"I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books."
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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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"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
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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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"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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"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."
"The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions."
"The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions."
"Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache."
"Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it."
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
"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."
"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."
"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."
"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."
"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."
"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."
"The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous."
"Networking is an essential part of building wealth."
"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."
"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed."
"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."
"Time is the wealth through which money comes."
"I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to."
"Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made."
"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"
"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."
"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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