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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.
Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.
I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.
My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.
The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.
One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It's a virtuous cycle.
Buffett gave significant portions of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett made money for 50 years before he donated.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
One of the great conundrums in philanthropy globally is that the way wealth creation happens itself often creates the inequities in society.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.
There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.
The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.
The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.
Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.
I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.