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Anne FrankI don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.

 - Anne Frank

Tags:   beauty  happiness  intelligence  wealth  

Samuel AdamsIf ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

 - Samuel Adams

Tags:   freedom  liberty  servitude  wealth  

EpicurusThe wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

 - Epicurus

Tags:   greed  wealth  

Edward AbbeyCounterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.

 - Edward Abbey

Tags:   conservative  liberal  power  wealth  

Michel de MontaigneWe are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than our own. Man can in nothing fix and conform himself to his mere necessity. Of pleasure, wealth and power he grasps at more than he can hold; his greediness is incapable of moderation.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   begging  borrowing  greed  moderation  necessity  wealth  

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self love.

 - Adam Smith

Tags:   economics  labor  wealth  

Lao TzuWise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others, the happier he is.
The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
The Tao nourishes by not forcing.
By not dominating, the Master leads.


 - Laozi / Lao-Tzu

Tags:   leadership  proof  wealth  wisdom  

Horace He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between the little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state.

 - Horace

Tags:   balance  poverty  wealth  

Francis QuarlesIf thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

 - Francis Quarles

Tags:   desire  poor  possessions  rich  wealth  

Milton FriedmanThe salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market reward for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the Individual to himself.

 - John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags:   corporations  executives  salary  wealth  

We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

 - Owen Feltham

Tags:   gold  wealth  

Edward GibbonPhilosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchemy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry.

 - Edward Gibbon

Tags:   alchemy  commerce  industry  money  wealth  

David HumeRiches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.

 - David Hume

Tags:   money  virtue  wealth  

Horace He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

 - Horace

Tags:   reason  virtue  wealth  

Horace Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest to use it; a mistress if thou knowest not.

 - Horace

Tags:   money  wealth  

Horace The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

 - Horace

Tags:   greed  wealth  

Michel de MontaigneThe lack of wealth is easily repaired; but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   poverty  soul  wealth  

Ron PaulA system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

 - Ron Paul

Tags:   capitalism  economics  money  wealth  

Theodore RooseveltThe eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."

No good whatever will come from that warped and mock morality which denounces the misdeeds of men of wealth and forgets the misdeeds practiced at their expense; which denounces bribery, but blinds itself to blackmail; which foams with rage if a corporation secures favors by improper methods, and merely leers with hideous mirth if the corporation is itself wronged.

 - Theodore Roosevelt

Tags:   bribery  corporations  morality  stealing  wealth  

Jim RohnFormal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

 - Jim Rohn

Tags:   education  success  wealth  

Henry Ward BeecherNo man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

 - Henry Ward Beecher

Tags:   poor  rich  wealth  

Samuel JohnsonResolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

 - Samuel Johnson

Tags:   liberty  poverty  wealth  

Jane AustenBe honest and poor, by all means -- but I shall not envy you; I do not much think I shall even respect you. I have a much greater respect for those that are honest and rich.

 - Jane Austen

Tags:   honesty  poor  respect  wealth  

Thomas SowellMany individual fallacies in economics are founded on the larger, and usually implicit, fallacious assumption that economic transactions are a zero-sum process, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But voluntary economic transactions -- whether between employer and employee, tenant and landlord, or international trade -- would not continue to take place unless both parties were better off making these transactions than not making them.

 - Thomas Sowell

Tags:   economics  money  trade  wealth  

Oscar WildeIn England an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

 - Oscar Wilde

Tags:   innovation  invention  success  wealth  

Elon MuskTo make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

 - Elon Musk

Tags:   computers  games  wealth  

Carl RogersAlmost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

 - Carl Rogers

Tags:   age  anxiety  childhood  honor  wealth