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• Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

  Henry Ford

  Happiness, Money, Business

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• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  Dan Millman

  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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• If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

  John Calvin

  Country, Believe, Heaven

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

  Sophocles

  Beautiful, Looks, Ugly

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

  J. Paul Getty

  People, Needs, Complexes

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• No good man ever became suddenly rich.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Good Man, Rich

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 864-67, 1922.

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Retirement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Character, Building, Economy

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• I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 06, 2015

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• He is the richest who is content with the least.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Greek, Contentment

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Prosperity, Finance, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inequality, Superfluous

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.233, Henry David Thoreau

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• There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

  John Armstrong

  Way, Waste, Fool

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.72, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, Almighty, Midas

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.96

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• Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

  Homer

  Praise, Eternal

  Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.495

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• You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

  Adolphus Busch

  Money, Humorous, Drinking

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• I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions.

  Drake

  Money, Humble, Conceited

  Song: Headlines, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.

  Drake

  Confidence, Money, Humble

  Song: Forever

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• All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Passion, Ideas

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 17, 2011

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• Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Money, Learning

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 01, 2015

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• Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

  Honore de Balzac

  Money, Riches, Grows

  "At the Sign of the Cat and Racket". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1830.

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• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Inspiring

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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