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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

George Gilder

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George Gilder
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 29
Economist
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New York City
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