Personal Wealth Quotes

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Money, Powerful

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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• Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Money, Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 26, 2016

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  "Helen Gurley Brown on Money, Sex and Having It All" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.

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  Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

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• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.

  Kobe Bryant

  Long, Wealth, Accumulation

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• Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Gold, Needs, Generations

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• I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should, you know, go to the reeducation camps and if that doesn't help, then being beheaded.

  Roseanne Barr

  Believe, Bankers, Pay

  "Roseanne Barr: Behead Bankers, Rich Who Won't Give Up Wealth". www.realclearpolitics.com. October 1, 2011.

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• The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism.

  Paul Polman

  Moving, Fighting, Self

  "Rio+20: Unilever CEO on the need to battle on to save the world" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Loyalty, Children, Impact

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.177, Crown Business

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• I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  FaceBook post by Noel Gallagher from Dec 23, 2016

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• The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as well by starting businesses, and all the lives we've touched positively.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Independence, Stories, Financial

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• Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have literally sold everything they have to sell. They have sold their honesty. They've sold their integrity. They've sold America down the river. They have sold everything in order to amass critical personal wealth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Honesty, Integrity, Order

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

  Herbert Read

  Equality, Literature, World

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Justice, Charity

  Jim Wallis, Bill Moyers (2001). “Faith Works: How Faith-based Organizations are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America”, p.18, Council Oak Books

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• True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

  Eric Liu

  Community, Degrees, Cooperation

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.61, Sasquatch Books

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• Every human being I have ever met, irrespective of the business, the job or life situation they are in, possesses at least one and normally multiple instant jackpots that are within their grasp.
  All they have to do is recognize them, believe that they are there, and believe that they are entitled to harvest them and the financial and the personal wealth and riches that come along with them.

  Jay Abraham

  Jobs, Believe, Riches

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• Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Order, Sick

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• The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

  Harry Lennix

  Thinking, Important, Wealth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Personal wealth is the by-product of making the world a better place.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  World, Wealth, Better Place

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• It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sin, Wealth, Welfare

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.115, Chronicle Books

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• In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

  Satish Kumar

  Self, Challenges, Goes On

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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