Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
- Topic: Thinking, Wealth
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
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Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
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If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
Silver and gold I have none; but such as I have give I thee.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.