Wealth Quotes - Page 13

• Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Sweet, Position Of Power, Thrones

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• Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Desert, Rewards, Virtue

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.83, eKitap Projesi

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• As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Pride, Loss

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.42

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• Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

  Hesiod

  Men, Doe, Poverty

  Opera et dies, 317-9 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

  George Henry Lewes

  Amplification, Rhetorical, Simplest

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Riches, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

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• Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

  Diogenes

  Cities, House, Virtue

  "Anthology (Book 4)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Doe, Made

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.

  Plutarch

  Sea, Enough, Estates

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

  Aristophanes

  Excellent

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• The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Worship, He Man

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Thackeray: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Loss, Forget, Virtue

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Humility, Passion

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.41, Baker Books

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• Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

  Epicurus

  Self, Self Sufficiency, Sufficiency

  Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”

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• A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Desire, Dollars

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.

  Astra Taylor

  Expression, Self, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged

  Azim Premji

  Believe, Trying, World

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• What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Miracle, Independence

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• Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each other—by providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Second, it gives people a motive, other than genetic self-interest, for sacrificing their lives on behalf of others.

  Jared Diamond

  Sacrifice, Self, Two

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• It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

  Albert J. Nock

  Long, Goes On, Matter

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• There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

  Albert J. Nock

  Mean, Men, Two

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock (p. 59), 1935.

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• You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and
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  There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

  Gerhard

  Culture, Purpose, Sake

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• Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

  Ottmar Edenhofer

  Change, Environmental, Climate

  "Climate Talks or Wealth Redistribution Talks?" by Nicolas Loris, www.dailysignal.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Want, Consumers

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