Wealth Quotes - Page 30

• What is wealth? A dream of fools.

  Abraham Cahan

  Dream, Fool

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

  Leland Stanford

  Country, Way, Distribution

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Money, Giving

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• It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Work, Blessing, Order

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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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• Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• What meaning do our lives have if we cannot set aside at least one hour a day out of 24 for thinking about God? Think how many hours we spend reading the newspaper, gossiping and doing various useless acts! Children we can definitely set aside an hour for sadhana if we really want it. That is our real wealth. If we cannot spare a whole hour at a stretch, keep apart half an hour in the morning and again in the evening.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Morning, Children, Real

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Stupidity, Grandfather

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• Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

  Aeschylus

  Wise, Men, Tears

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

  Michael Nesmith

  Differences, Dollars, Ends

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

  David Korten

  Claims

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• Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

  James Fenton

  Drama, Littles, Poetic

  "A licence for drama" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2002.

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• The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

  Charles J. Givens

  Frustration, Past, Goal

  Charles J. Givens (1991). “More Wealth Without Risk: How to Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb”

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• I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

  Rita Coolidge

  Player, Different, Information

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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