George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fashion Quotes, Money Quotes

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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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.

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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

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Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

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Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

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For I can raise no money by vile means.

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

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Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

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