Wealth Quotes - Page 25

• Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Philosophy, Finding Yourself, Daydreaming

  Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

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• The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Gentleman, Language

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• Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  War, Space, Civilization

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Way, Being Me, Assets

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• My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Growing, Liquid, Individual

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• What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Parent, World, Contributing

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• Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

  Nelly

  Education, Self, Self Knowledge

  Song: Nobody Knows, Album: Suit, 2004

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• If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

  William C. Brown

  Pain, Order, Stupidity

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Latin, Our Generation

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• I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

  Azim Premji

  Responsibility, Thinking, Generations

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• With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

  Azim Premji

  Ambition, People, Way

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• You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.

  Master P

  Mean, Mind, Generations

  "Master P Cleans Up His Act". "News & Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. June 25, 2007.

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• I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

  Sean Parker

  Reality, Thinking, Perception

  "Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'" By Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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• The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

  Leland Ryken

  Puritan, Obsessed, Danger

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.

  David Rubenstein

  Mean, Benefits, Helping

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• During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on “unearned income” have bounced up and down with regularity, and I’ve never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.

  Steven Rattner

  Wall, Hard Work, Years

  "More Chips For Tax Reform" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 24, 2012.

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• I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?

  Stuart Rose

  Believe, School, Needs

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• In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

  Amity Shlaes

  School, Zuckerberg, Way

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Bridges, Australia, Port

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.

  Ken Salazar

  Dream, America, Shoes

  "Coloradans At DNC: Jared Polis, Ken Salazar, Ryan Case And Maria Ciano Speak During Opening Night". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 05, 2012.

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• .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Winter, Men

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

  Don Tapscott

  Children, Thinking, Play

  Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.4, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

  Ratan Tata

  Two, Stakes

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• I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Believe, Successful, People

  Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Years, Water, Pirate

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