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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
- Democracy
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XI.
- Morality
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973
If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Path of Life (1909), p. 89
- Envy
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
Brian Tracyborn 1944
- Intelligence
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30
- Marriage
Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.
Donald Trumpborn 1946Interview with Ashleigh Banfield on ABC’s Good Morning America (17 March 2011)
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain1835–1910American Claimant (1892)
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Mark Twain1835–1910
He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Mark Twain1835–1910“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s Farm” (1869), anthologized in Mark Twain’s Sketches (1872)
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 38, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
- Morality
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter XXVIn context
- Comedy
- Time
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
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- Work
If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point.
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- Business