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“A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.”

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Author:Russell Green

“The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”

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Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'”

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Author:Don Marquis

“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”

“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.”

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Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.”

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.”

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Author:Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

“Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”

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Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography