Money Quotes - Page 32

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

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Ends, Fortune

  Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.456

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• Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

  John Adams

  Congratulations, Riches, Attention

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• Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Rich Or Poor, Degrees

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

  Francis Bacon

  Wealth, Masters, Dangerous

  "De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum". Book by Francis Bacon, Book Six, 1623.

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• Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

  Francis Bacon

  Advice, Proud, Riches

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.460

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• There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Children, Memories, Men

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• Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Funny, Giving, Pockets

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• But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

  John Adams

  Education, Memorable, School

  John Adams (2016). “Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

  John Gray

  Education, Rewards, Earning

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• Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Education, Wise, Men

  "What I Think" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 55), 1956.

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• Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

  Earl Wilson

  Funny, Business, People

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• Riches are for spending.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Riches, Spending

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Expense'

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• As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

  Steve Forbes

  Cutting, Power, Opportunity

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• One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Giving, Greed

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• Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Blood, Skills

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• An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.

  John Adams

  Men, Simplicity, Honest

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• I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

  Sergei Bubka

  Thinking, Saving Money, Enough

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• O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

  Lord Byron

  Gold, Credit, Vapour

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• Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

  Bob Marley

  Numbers, Ends, Searching For Happiness

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• Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

  Earl Wilson

  Inspirational, Easy, Toothpaste

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• You will never let yourself have more money than you think you deserve.

  Robert Anthony

  Thinking, More Money, Deserve

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• If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.

  Teddy Wilson

  Play, Enough, North Pole

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• You can't fatten the pig on market day.

  John Howard

  Pigs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Army, Easier, Revenue

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• Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.

  James Grant

  Nice, Mean, Growth

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