Wealth
Fahds's wealth was estimated to be $25 billion. Fortune Magazine reported that his wealth in 1988 was $18 billion, making him the second richest person in the world.
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Famous quotes containing the word wealth:
“People die for wealth and birds die for food.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
“No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)