Pursuit Of Wealth Quotes

• Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Honor, Enthusiasm, Sin

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• This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, Tools

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.216, Penguin

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  It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing

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• An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Life, Attitude, Principles

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Bed, Want, Honest

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• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

  Rana Dasgupta

  Class, Wealth, Middle

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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• This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

  Charles Dickens

  World, Poverty, Wealth

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• It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

  Alain de Botton

  Achievement, Challenges, Ruins

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.218, Penguin UK

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• If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  People, Age, Looks

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.147, Verso

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• I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

  Mort Kondracke

  Grandchildren, Rights, People

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• You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Gains, Wealth, Pleasure

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• Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Egalitarianism, People, Hollywood

  "Capitalism: Hollywood's Miscast Villain". www.wsj.com. June 04, 2010.

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