Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Money Quotes, Selfish Quotes

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Money Quotes , Reading Quotes

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Money Quotes , Way Quotes

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Country Quotes , Money Quotes

Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Money Quotes , Business Quotes

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

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I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

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When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

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Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Money Quotes , Taming Quotes

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Money Quotes , Men Quotes

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Country Quotes , Money Quotes

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Money Quotes , People Quotes

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Money Quotes , Hero Quotes

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

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Time is a waste of money.

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