"The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money."
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"God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it."
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"The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society."
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"Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good."
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"We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor."
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"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."
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"All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell."
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"I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich."
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"When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die."
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"One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity."
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"The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer."
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"I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations."
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"My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life."
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"In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves."
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"Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price."
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"When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy."
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"If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets."
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"The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them."
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"To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich"
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"The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism."
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