Quotes with wealth

Quotes 61 till 80 of 208.

  • Ben Hecht I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • George Santayana I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody
    12-10-2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Socrates If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bill Gross If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Francis Bacon If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Edmund Burke If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Confucius In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Thorstein Veblen In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • C. Wright Mills In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alfred Marshall Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
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  • Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Lucretius It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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