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The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.
I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.
I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
The money game is not like any other game. You cannot choose whether you'll play, for the money game is the only game in town.
We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.
As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it's when we don't have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it.
Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.
It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
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.
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.
Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.
If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.
Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.