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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

The Affluent Society (1958)
It's hard to make money in business; it's very difficult...and if your reward is relatively great, that's the way nature works. I don't see it's any more extraordinary for a man in business to accumulate a large fortune than a man in politics to attain high office.

Quoted in Getty on Getty (1989)
I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene.
I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen...who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reachIt is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Address, at the presentation of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1895)
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

'Wealth,' North American Review (1889)
Rich men should be thankful for one inestimable boon. They have it in their power during their lives to busy themselves in organizing benefactions from which the masses of their fellows will derive lasting advantage, and thus dignify their own lives.

'Wealth,' North American Review (1889)
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year
Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest
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