Money Quotes - Page 29

• The love for money is only one among many.

  Alfred Marshall

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• People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, People, World

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• Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

  Robert Hunter

  Just One, Loses

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• Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Family, Work, Reality

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• The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Gold, Peculiar

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• Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

  Richard Thaler

  Ties, Gold, Why Not

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• Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

  Michelle Rhee

  Leadership, Education, Jobs

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• Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

  Mason Cooley

  Divorce, Lovers, Quarrels

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• Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

  Mason Cooley

  Begging, Beggar, Passerby

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• The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Men, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.362

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• Every man has his price.

  Robert Walpole

  Men, Bribery, Every Man

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• It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Independence, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

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• To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Inevitable, Turns, Millions

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• For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Eggs, Giving, May

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• There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.

  Arthur Caplan

  Class, People, Priorities

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• The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

  Isabella Bird

  Dollars, Divinity, Worship

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowing, Dimes, Whole

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.236, Harvard University Press

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• Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Want, Enough

  Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.269, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Strength, Women, Heart

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• The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Mean, Opportunity

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Civil Disobedience”, p.48, Broadview Press

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• Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Teacher, Book

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• People die, but money never does.

  Penelope Lively

  People, Doe, Dies

  Penelope Lively (2007). “City of the Mind”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Standards, Ability

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• Don't eat
  those nice green dollars your wife
  gives you for breakfast.

  Denise Levertov

  Nice, Giving, Wife

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