Accumulating Quotes
86 quotes by 76 authors
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These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need…
— Mary Todd Lincoln
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of…
— Bill Gates
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Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for…
— Anuj
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During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in…
— Steven Rattner
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You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can…
— Melvin Burgess
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There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
— Pete Domenici
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I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical…
— Richard Dooling
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If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased…
— Gautama Buddha
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It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting…
— Charles Darwin
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Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the…
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as…
— Peace Pilgrim
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Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.
— Laura Schlessinger
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to…
— James F. Cooper
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
— Clarence Day
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
— Susan Sontag
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but…
— Alan Watts
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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable…
— Dorothy Parker
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