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“At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.”

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Malcolm Forbes was an accomplished publisher, best known for his leadership of Forbes magazine, a globally renowned business and finance publication. Under his tenure, Forbes magazine was transformed into a global brand. more

“The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear.”

Men Made Real Wealth Rich Fortune Rap Oil Disappear Riches Instance Corporate Etc Aggressive Idle Estates Speculation Energetic Andrew Operators Carnegie

Author:Warren Buffett

“Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.”

Sea Land Fields Brother Casts Riches

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.”

Knows Use Care Values Loses Virtue Danger Labor Difficulty Accidents Riches Vanity Fraud Impart Perplexity

Book:Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker

Source: Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker

“Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.”

Pleasure Opinion Depends Glory Riches Plenty

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.”

Men Should Produce Riches Plenty Providence Perversion Covetousness Generalities

Author:William Penn

“If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.”

Ifs Art Death Poor Rich Journey Heavy Riches Ass Thee Bows Consumerism Overconsumption Measure For Measure

Book:The Complete Works of W. Shakspere: Illustrated with Many Valuable Literary Notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Drake, Chalmers, Coleridge, Lamb, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Ch. Knight, and Other Distinguished Commentators with Large Introductory Notices Prefixed to Each Play ...

Source: The Complete Works of W. Shakspere: Illustrated with Many Valuable Literary Notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Drake, Chalmers, Coleridge, Lamb, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Ch. Knight, and Other Distinguished Commentators with Large Introductory Notices Prefixed to Each Play ...

“Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.”

Men Evil Causes Riches

Author:Posidonius

“Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.”

Men Would Be Loss Pay Sacrifice Honor Quiet Conscience Dear Burden Heavy Envy Riches Bargains

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

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