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• Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

  Horace

  Wealth

  "Epistles", I. 10. 47, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 07, 2014

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• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  Dan Millman

  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

  Bat Masterson

  Funny, Summer, Humorous

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• Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Money

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 01, 2012

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• The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

  C. L. R. James

  Change, Running, Revolutionary War

  C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

  James B. Weaver

  Powerful, Political, Suffering

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• Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

  Honore de Balzac

  Money, Wealth, Grows

  "At the Sign of the Cat and Racket". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1830.

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• Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Money, Powerful

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

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• Money often costs too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Retirement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

  Jim Rohn

  Wealth, Fingers, Plans

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 29, 2016

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• Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

  John Dryden

  Slave, Claims, Graves

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• Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Son, Thinking, Temptation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.135

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• The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Gold, Able

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.255, Executive Intelligence Review

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• The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

  Juvenal

  Care, Estates

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• Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

  Henry Fielding

  Blessing, Blessing To Others, Charity

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• It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Sides, Misery

  Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Pockets, Contracts

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• Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eye, Mad, Facts

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and characteristic men”, p.150

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