Thoughts on wealth

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Last Updated: Dec 24, 2021, 10:31 IST1 min
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.—Ernest HemingwayAmerican novelist

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Wealth flows from energy and ideas. —William FeatherAmerican publisher and author

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both. —Louis D BrandeisAmerican lawyer

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. —Henry David ThoreauAmerican naturalist

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Contentment is the only real wealth. —Alfred NobelSwedish inventor

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. —Edmund BurkeIrish statesman

Wealth and compassion are opposites. —Munshi PremchandAuthor

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. —George Bernard ShawIrish playwright

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? —Tony JudtBritish-American historian

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. —Kin HubbardAmerican humourist

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I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged. —Azim PremjiEntrepreneur

First Published: Dec 24, 2021, 10:31

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