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“With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money”

“The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe, because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth, and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people. In this case every man would have to pay his own price.”

People Ifs Men Whole Government Individual Wealth Pay Cases Influence Safe Authority Mass Resources Ultimate Every Man Exceed

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don't, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth's greatest luxuries.”

People Needs Giving Reason Inspiration Wealth Missing Luxury Justify Missing Out

Author:Andrew Tobias

“When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.”

“Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.”

Men Wealth Expenditures

Author:Aristotle

“Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate”

Wells Wealth Fame Passionate

Author:Stephen Fry

“Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.”

Has Beens Individual Wealth Environment Honest Bad Things

Author:Dalai Lama

“So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.”

World Humans Different Together Challenges Wealth Imagine Balance Relation Human Relations Different Worlds

Author:David Suzuki

“Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.”

Humans Wealth Talent Institutions Can Not Veto

Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom; you will have everything.”

Helping Sound Natural Wealth Sleep Materials Comfort Eternal Medicine Hearing Supreme Bliss Electric Pillow Ornaments Sound Sleep

Author:Sivananda

“In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.”

Wealth Company Design Intellectual Hierarchy Organizational Intellectual Capital

Book:Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization

Source: Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization

“Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.”

People World Desire Wealth Poor Rich Danger Delight Poor People

Book:The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

“Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.”

Character Differences Wealth Stations Intimidated

Author:Joe Biden

“Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.”

Important Today Individual Wealth Position Birth Happenings Importance

Author:Emilio Pucci

“There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.”

Wells Wealth Greatness Goodness Simplicity

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.”

People Wells Country School Reading President Wealth Class High School Caught Ruling Textbooks History Textbooks

Author:Utah Phillips

“Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.”

World Wealth Media Organization University Elites Bureaucracy Globalization Affluent

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.”

Way Grows Wealth Successful News Significant Corporations Good Way Mcdonalds Successful Business

Author:Paul Clitheroe

“Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.”

Wealth Taste Leisure

Author:Winston Churchill

“The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.”

Persons Wealth Ability Keys Skills Financial Income Passive Financial Freedom Portfolios Passive Income

Book:Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

“Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.”

People Way Mean Made Certain Opportunity Waiting Community Wealth Building Areas Denied Segregation Mean People

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.”

People Knows Want Giving Might Opportunity Community Wealth Pay Policy African American

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“During the last two years the wealthiest 14 Americans saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is truly unbelievable. This $157 billion INCREASE in wealth among 14 individuals is more wealth that is owned, collectively, by 130 million Americans. This country does not survive morally, economically or politically when so few have so much, and so many have so little.”

Years Littles Doe Two Country Lasts Individual Wealth Millions Saws Increase Billions Two Years Unbelievable

Author:Bernie Sanders

“In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.”

Way Country States Today Earth Wealth United United States Economy Changed Majors Fundamentals Income Distribution Income Distribution

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.”

War Together Political Winning Wealth Moral Income Inequality Gross Income Inequality

Author:Bernie Sanders

“This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The top one-hundredth of 1 percent makes more than 40 percent of all campaign contributions. The billionaire class owns the political system and reaps the benefits from it.”

Looks Today Political Wealth Class Benefits Percent Bottom Campaigns Contribution Reap Billionaire Political Systems Oligarchy Campaign Contributions

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.”

Needs Today Games Wealth Levels Powerful Economy Economic Bottom Inequality Rigged

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.”

World States Today Wealth United Poverty United States Childhood Profit Income Inequality Corporate Ceo Salary Wealth Inequality

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.”

People Desire Wish Wealth Plans Riches Burning Definite Burning Desire

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.”

Wealth Revenue Disgrace

Author:Bruno Kreisky

“What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.”

Ifs Men Firsts Persons Doe Enough Asks Interest Differences Wealth Safe Limits Essentials Barns

Author:Seneca the Younger

“When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it.”

Ifs Left Wealth

Author:Josh Bernstein

“One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.”

Men Humans Wealth Path Greater Wonderful Fellows Serving Wonderful Things Free Market Human History Fellow Man Looting

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.”

Humans Given Wealth Creativity Environment Products Keys Rain Trade Prosperity Accidents Contracts Associates

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class is now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy the candidate they want. And it is up to us to stand up and fight back. If we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.”

“The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.”

Character Wealth Results Fool Prosperous

Author:Aristotle

“Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.”

World Real Done Lasts Wealth Poverty Forever Periods Fame Sickness Etc Temples Real World

Author:John H. Groberg

“My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.”

Wealth Creativity Photograph Quantity

Author:Destin Sparks

“For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.”

Given Wealth Rich

Author:Martial

“And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.”

Doe Hard Today Lasts Lines Wealth Land Honest Hard Work Taxes Fairs Dollars Rewards Working It Wages Farming Pennies Assembly Assembly Line Tax System Honest Work

Author:George McGovern

“People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.”

People Knows Men Want Wealth Share Taxes Every Man

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.”

Men Made Wealth Fate Devices Cunning Files Captives Fetters

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.”

People Has Beens Two Values Wealth Materials Essentials Goodness Ocean Gun Protection Gates Assets Assault Material Wealth

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes”

Needs Littles Persons Guy Wish Wealth Rich Relative Little Money

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous”

Wells Water Wealth Sea Drink Thirsty Sea Water

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future.”

Thinking Knows Giving Kids Wealth Bird Planning Pushing Nests

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.”

Giving Kind Desire Wealth Giving Up

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Personal wealth is the by-product of making the world a better place.”

World Wealth Products Better Place Personal Wealth

Author:Paul Zane Pilzer

“A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.”

Should Mean Self Wealth Depends Honor Belonging Whim Self Contained

Author:Aristotle

“By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.”

Might Spiritual Wealth Imagine Available Receptive Spiritual Wealth

Author:Ming-Dao Deng

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