Wealth Quotes - Page 26

• Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Thinking, Discovery

  Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

  Criss Jami

  Passion, Men, Romance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

  Tom Lantos

  Political, Generations, Information

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• Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Helping Others, Evil, Choices

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

  Alfred Marshall

  Law, Rights, Individual

  Alfred Marshall (1890). “Principles of Economics”

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• Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

  Rowan Williams

  Average, Littles, Poverty

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• Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

  Joyce Appleby

  Wealth Creation, Exploitation, Capitalist

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• The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

  James Morcan

  House, Community, Desperate

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• In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Thinking, Introducing New, Play

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• This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Men, Honor

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.570, Library of America

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• Such power I gave the people as might do,
  Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
  Those that were great in wealth and high in place
  My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
  Before them both I held my shield of might,
  And let not either touch the other's right.

  Plutarch

  People, Might, Shields

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.119, 谷月社

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• Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.

  Evan Osnos

  Book, Essentials, Maps

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• He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Arrogance, Taft, Littles

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• We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Children, Army, Land

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• Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

  Henry Demarest Lloyd

  Liberty, Produce

  Henry Demarest Lloyd (1894). “Wealth Against Commonwealth”, p.2, Burned Books Publishing

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• We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Long, Pay

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.146, Crown Business

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• The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Powerful, Real, Book

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• Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

  Alan Greenspan

  Money, Gold, Spending

  "Gold and Economic Freedom" by Alan Greenspan, www.constitution.org. 1966.

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• I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

  Katherine Boo

  Husband, Crazy, Years

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural environments, in order to enlarge wild populations and stanch the hemorrhaging of biological wealth. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Race, Order, Diversity

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• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Struggle, Loss, Ukraine

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• I don't like inherited wealth.

  Albert Gubay

  Inherited Wealth

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• Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.

  Andre Suares

  War, Blood, People

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