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"Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."
"I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of."
"Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure."
"My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest."
"Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare."
"Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity."
"It is wealth to be content."
"Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are."
"The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere."
"Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size."
"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
"A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them."
"Not valuing wealth prevents theft."
"Our health care is rationed by wealth."
"To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth."
"Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty."
"All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way."
"It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power."
"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."