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Wealth Quotes
What money builds, and what it costs.
This selection isn't shy about contradiction: one voice describes wealth and poverty living side by side in Mexico with real cordiality, while another credits an entire way of life for producing greater prosperity and comfort, in the vein of Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
How indifferent are men to this carpenter or that fisherman, who has no word to speak of adventure or of wealth, but has only the word of God to proclaim, and has no credentials but that he comes in the name of the Lord.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
- Fugitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
- Italy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
- Enact
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
- Nov 07, 2020
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020