Wealthy Quotes - Page 30

• In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

  Jared Diamond

  People, Water, Community

  "Why societies collapse". www.abc.net.au. July 17, 2003.

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• The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Simple, House

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.

  Laozi

  Intelligent, Persevere, Enough

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• This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

  Alma Adams

  Fighting, Needs, Levels

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• Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.

  Robert Reich

  School, Cutting, Class

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

  Dave Barry (1985). “Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead”, p.32, Rodale

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• I think it's time that the wealthy and corporations paid their fair share to support this country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Thinking, Support

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light

  Dan Fogelberg

  Blessed, Journey, Light

  Song: Nexus, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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• If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.

  Jim Rohn

  Healthy, Want, Study

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• If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Powerful, Writing

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• If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Spain, Income

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.

  Dan Millman

  Creating, Becoming, Energy

  Dan Millman (2008). “Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• I'm not independently wealthy.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

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• In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred - I mean hatred for wealthy people - that is stirred up by official propaganda. That is why there can be no 'velvet' solution, as there was, for example, in Georgia or Ukraine.

  Boris Nemtsov

  Mean, Ukraine, Class

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• A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

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• Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

  St. Jerome

  Wealth, Poor, Plague

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• Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Courage, Lying

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• All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Privilege

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Class, Mind, Gold

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.20, Graphic Arts Books

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• You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Ghetto

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• The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Want, Certain

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• If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

  Mara Wilson

  Cities, Tiny, Actresses

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2013

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