Plato
Philosopher
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
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Greatest Wealth
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George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Lack of money is the root of of all evil."
Sarah Bernhardt
Actress, Playwright
"It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
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"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
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"It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for."
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"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake."
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"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
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"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
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"Money often costs too much."
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"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it"
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"Intelligence solves problems & produces money.Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone."
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"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
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"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
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"If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth."
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"This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly."
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