Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Money Quote



"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
Robert Frost
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"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."
Samuel Johnson
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"A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third."
Adam Smith
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"A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that'ssubtraction."
Mae West
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"A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity."
Nachman of Bratslav
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"A penny saved is a penny earned."
Benjamin Franklin
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"A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does."
Nachman of Bratslav
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"All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it."
GK Chesterton
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"Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich."
Robin Williams
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"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
Socrates
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"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
Benjamin Franklin
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."
Confucius
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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain
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"Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two."
Author Unknown
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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington
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"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him."
Benjamin Franklin
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"He is richest who is content with the least."
Socrates
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"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Benjamin Franklin
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"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would
like to have."
Socrates
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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
Kahlil Gibran
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"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
Mark Twain
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"I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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"I paid too much for it, but it's worth it."
Samuel Goldwyn
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"I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself."
Henry Ford
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"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
Socrates
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"If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point."
Author Unknown
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a

merrier world."
J.R.R. Tolkien
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"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
Edmund Burke
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"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
Dorothy Parker
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"If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal."
Katherine Hepburn
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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
Oscar Wilde
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"It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from
living freely and nobly."
Bertrand Russell
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"It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they'd say, 'We'll let you know.'
John Cassavettes
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"I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock."
Henny Youngman
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"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again."
Matthew Clayfield
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"Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything."
Benjamin Franklin
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"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
Christopher Marlowe
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Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.
BILLY ROSE
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
NORMAN R AUGUSTINE
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There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
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The only thing money gives is the freedom of not worrying about money.
JOHNNY CARSON
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDA
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK
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I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
WARREN BUFFET
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One may see the small value God has for riches by the people He gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPE
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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich, they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
RITA RUDNER

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