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Your Quotes for 27 May 2006 - Wealth

Two men on the birthday list for today acquired great wealth. Both were born poor in New York state. Cornelius Vanderbilt was born at Stapleton, Staten Island on this day in 1794, from a $100 loan built a shipping fleet and then moved into railroads. Jason Gould was born at Roxbury on this day in 1836, working first as a surveyor and then as leather merchant where he was described as "sharp to the point of knavery". He then moved into stock and bond speculations, battling with Vanderbilt among others. Most really wealthy persons don't write a lot, so these quotes on Wealth are probably tinged with a bit of jealousy.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
     - Andrew Carnegie, 1835 - 1919

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
     - Euripides, 484 - 406 BC

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
     - Jean de La Bruyère, 1645 - 1696

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
     - John Kenneth Galbraith

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
     - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830 - 1916

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
     - Russell Greene

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