"If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich."
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"Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth."
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."
"The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden."
"When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it."
"Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind."
"Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt."
"There is no real wealth but the labour of man."
"Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster."
"As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it."
"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."
"Wealth inequality has increased."
"Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself."
"The wealthiest man among us is the best"
"Wealth and want equally harden the human heart..."
"Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go."
"Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue."
"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."
"The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance."