Wealth Quotes - Page 9

• If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Business, Saving

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• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Money, Business

  David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

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• There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Money, Business

  Following the Equator ch. 56, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Doe, World

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• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Money, Successful

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• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Riches, Firsts

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.621, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Money, Evil, Political

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Environmental, Use

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Ambition, Focus

  Barack Obama's commencement speech at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

  Steve Martin

  Money, Math, Dollars

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• There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

  Robert Graves

  Money, Writing, Poetry

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Heart, May

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.315, Bantam

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• Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Together, Soil

  Karl Marx (1992). “Marx's Capital”, Lawrence & Wishart Limited

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• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Money, Husband

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• We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

  Buzzie Bavasi

  Money, Gold, Live By

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• The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Positive, Money, Real

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• Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Ideas, Trying

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• Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

  Ovid

  Enough, Posse, Stills

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  If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Business, Work

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• No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

  Henry George

  Swimming, Thinking, Two

  Henry George, Kenneth C. Wenzer (1999). “Our Land and Land Policy”, MSU Press

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• It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Skills, Rothschild

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• I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strength, Country, Military

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

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• In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

  Herbert Croly

  Running, Men, Long

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• Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

  Henry Ford

  Happiness, Money, Business

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