Great wealth is its own nationality.

—Velda Johnston

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About Velda Johnston

Velda Johnston (1912–1997) was an American writer of Gothic Romance novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Veronica Jason. She was raised and educated in Pasadena, California where she sold her first short story as a high school student. She went on to UCLA on a scholarship, where she majored...

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How do you make a million? You start with $900,000.

—Stephen Lewis

The American myth that anyone who works hard will get ahead, and that wealth accumulation is a product of individual effort and merit, is no longer sustainable.

—Manning Marable

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

—Hobart Brown

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The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.

—Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life

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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

—Wilson Mizner

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