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Daily Inspiration Quote by Leonard Orr

"The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value"

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Riches, in Leonard Orr's framing, aren't a moral hazard; they're a moral instrument. The line sells a comforting equation: more money equals more generosity, and generosity equals virtue. It's an argument that flatters both the giver and the system that produced the wealth. If you can share, then having a lot becomes not just acceptable but almost civic-minded. The cleverness is in how it sidesteps the messier questions - who got excluded on the way up, what "more" does to a person's sense of need, whether sharing is a substitute for structural fairness.

The subtext is reputational. For a celebrity figure, "I like to share everything... of value" reads like preemptive PR: my success is not hoarding, it's distribution. It positions the speaker as a conduit rather than a collector, turning accumulation into evidence of character. "Of value" is the key escape hatch. Value can mean cash, platform, connections, or some personal philosophy - and the vagueness gives Orr room to define generosity on his own terms, from philanthropy to advice to access.

Contextually, it's a familiar celebrity-era ethic: wealth isn't defended as deserved so much as redeemed through visible giving. The sentence also borrows the language of self-help - abundance, sharing, positivity - where "more" is treated as spiritually clean if the intent is clean. It's persuasive because it offers an emotional alibi for success: you can want riches without sounding greedy, as long as you narrate the wanting as a future gift.

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Orr, Leonard. (2026, January 15). The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-more-riches-you-have-the-more-you-can-share-169011/

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Orr, Leonard. "The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-more-riches-you-have-the-more-you-can-share-169011/.

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"The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-more-riches-you-have-the-more-you-can-share-169011/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Leonard Orr

Leonard Orr (November 15, 1937 - September 5, 2019) was a Celebrity from USA.

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