"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
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"Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust."
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"Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know."
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"Proverty and wealth are comparative sins."
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"The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore."
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"Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things."
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"The No.1 thing people can do to increase their wealth is to start a part-time business."
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"wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade."
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"Contentment is natural wealth."
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"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."
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"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."
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"I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men."
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"Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does"
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"Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth."
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"The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest."
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"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth."
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"Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business."
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"I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money."
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"If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health."
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"The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient."
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