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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
Steve Jobs

Saying, Done, Night

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates

Nature, Wealth, Content

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

History, Past, Game

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt Romney

Family, Health, History

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Truth, General

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Work, Through, America

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo

Nature, Means, View

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Work, Morning, Through

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Thomas Sowell

Political, America, Within

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin

Work, Fact, Story

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin

Happy, Greatest, Human

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy Warhol

Great, Country, America

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
Colonel Sanders

Business, Reason, Cemetery

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell

Love, Time, Submits

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
Jimmy Carter

Government, Difficult, American

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
James Brown

God, Job, Thinking

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).
Jerry Saltz

Best, Art, Saying

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Martin Scorsese

Family, Wants, King

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Marshall McLuhan

Time, Society, Faithful

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
Chuck Norris

America, Miserable, Seen

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.
Peter Singer

Giving, Give, Others

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Ted Turner

Away, Honest, Year

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.
Bryan Cranston

Health, Care, Feeling

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
Louise Brown

Small, Found, Stories

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
Wynton Marsalis

Cannot, Reason, Nation

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
George Osborne

Countries, Divine, Britain

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
George Foreman

Wanted, Champion, Boxer

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
Leon Kass

Job, Decision, Whatever

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