Wealth Quotes - Page 16

• Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.1, Government Institutes

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• Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

  Nick Murray

  Determined, Investment, Behavior

  Nick Murray (1999). “Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth: How You and Your Financial Advisor Can Grow Your Fortune in Stock Mutual Funds”, Nick Murray Company

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• The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.

  Anuj

  Numbers, People, Judging

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• Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.

  Anuj

  Heart, Character, Balance

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• Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.

  Anuj

  Self, Collecting Things, Progress

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• There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

  Li Keqiang

  Country, Social Unrest, Growth

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• The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

  Li Keqiang

  Self, Development, Economic

  "China Plans to Reduce the State’s Role in the Economy" by David Barboza and Chris Buckley, www.nytimes.com. May 24, 2013.

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• Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

  Jaron Lanier

  Photography, Jobs, Class

  "Who Owns the Future?". Book by Jaron Lanier, 2013.

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• But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.

  Paul Ormerod

  Philosopher, Moral, Individual

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

  Robert Reich

  Home, Class, Why Not

  "The Rise of the Non-Working Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.

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• We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  War, Ideas, Years

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• Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Jesus, Want

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• Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

  Frank Chodorov

  Art, Law, Society

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with regard to Iraq are identical. They both want a stable and rational Iraq that would use its considerable oil wealth in order to improve its own lot. But there doesn't seem to be very much prospect of that at the moment.

  Andrew Mango

  Moments, Interest, Law And Order

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• Did you know that lack of information is the number one barrier to wealth?

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Numbers, Information, Barriers

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 17, 2010

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• When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

  Jacque Fresco

  Collapse, Bases

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• Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Offering, Generosity

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• The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  Greed, Body, Reason Why

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• Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

  J. C. Ryle

  Pride, Watches, Shapes

  "Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew".

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• The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

  Dan Miller

  Relationship, Blessed, Heart

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• We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Names, Giving

  Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.1

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• The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Kindness, Vegetables

  Thomas Jefferson, Julian Parks Boyd, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen (1950). “Papers of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Power, Politics

  "The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke".

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• Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Happiness, Spiritual, Comfort

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