Wealth Quotes - Page 24

• Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

  Bob Brown

  Spontaneous, States, Reactions

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

  Matt Damon

  Growing Up, Kids, Class

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  Fanny Burney

  May, Riches, Prosperity

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.130

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• A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

  Rona Jaffe

  Dresses, Red, Glamour

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• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  Omar Bongo

  Happiness, Humanity, Path

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• Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

  Jonathan Ames

  Growing Up, America, Grows

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• The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

  Clint Black

  Hate, Years, People

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• Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

  Conrad Black

  Chiefs

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• The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

  Christopher Bond

  Dream, Average, Generations

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• Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Home, Mean, Warrior

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", January 20, 2006.

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• There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

  Jim Cramer

  People, Accountability, Mutual Fund

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• Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

  Scott D. Cook

  Years, Gold, Bars

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• In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

  Kiran Desai

  Dog, Important, India

  "Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. April 21, 2007.

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• If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

  Cindy Gallop

  Together, World, Tangible

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• College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

  Gordon Gee

  College, Ideas, Impact

  "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Inspirational, New Year, Loss

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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Trust, Paper, Littles

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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• Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

  Deepak Chopra

  Family, Happiness, Causes

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2012

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• We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Listening, Culture, Information

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Character, Zombie

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• Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

  Darrell Issa

  Greatness, Class, Creating

  "Interview with Representative Darrell Issa". "The Situation Room" with Jim Acosta, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

  Darrell Issa

  Son, People, Want

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• Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in this town, not to mention the people who shoot in for a week or two to try their hand on lower Broad or the other venues around town.

  Jamey Johnson

  Men, Two, Nashville

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• It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

  Adam Yauch

  Happiness, Easy, Equal

  "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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