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Quotes About Accumulation

Success produces success just as money produces money.
~ Nicolas de Chamfort
The reason why man is not altogether a brute is, because he has learned to accumulate capital, to use capital, to advance to a higher organization of society, to develop a completer co-operation, and so to win greater and greater control over Nature.
~ William Graham Sumner
the little things were not little things, because it was the accumulation of little things that made big things happen.
~ David Halberstam
Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises.
~ David Harvey
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
~ John Piper
I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.
~ David Millar
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
~ John Adams
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
~ G.K. Chesterton
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
~ Andrew Marr
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
~ Jim Cooper
History does not unfold: it piles up.
~ Robert Adams
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Money is the seed of money.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
y luego todo es igual que antes porque la acumulación y el golpe sin destinatario y la asfixia sin boca no son bastante para variar las cosas ni las relaciones, no lo es la repetición, ni la insistencia, ni la ejecución frustrada ni la amenaza, eso sólo agrava pero no cambia nada, la realidad no se añade (...)
~ Javier Marías
por sentir que já adquiriu direitos com o passar dos meses e dos anos iguais, pela simples acumulação de tempo, como se algo tão insignificante e tão neutro como a sucessão de dias supusesse um mérito para aquele que os atravessa, ou porventura o que os aguenta sem fugir nem se render.
~ Javier Marías
I believe our prayers do more than just petition the Father. I've become convinced that in some situations they actually release cumulative amounts of God's power until enough has been released to accomplish His will.
~ Dutch Sheets
The accumulation of time in the collective and individual human mind also holds a vast amount of residual pain from the past.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It must be represented, too, in great masses of accumulation, or it is not rightly protected. The characteristic essence of property, formed out of the combined principles of its acquisition and conservation, is to be unequal. The great masses, therefore, which excite envy, and tempt rapacity, must be put out of the possibility of danger. Then they form a natural rampart about the lesser properties in all their gradations. The same quantity of property which is by the natural
~ Edmund Burke
The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest
~ Albert Einstein
algo me dice que acumulamos en algún rincón todos los yoes que creemos haber perdido por el camino.
~ Alejandro Palomas
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
The thoughtful little things we do each day have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.
~ Nikita Dutta