Money Quotes - Page 33

• If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Divorce, Politics

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• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

  Horse, Gambling, Racing

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

  Francis Bacon

  Spread, Change Your Attitude

  Francis Bacon (1842). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.568

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• Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.

  Robert Anthony

  Unhappy, Make You Happy

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.114, Morgan James Publishing

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• Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Fees

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• The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Gun

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• I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX collect.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Fax Machines

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Party, Humor

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• To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

  Henry Miller

  Night, Crowds, Littles

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Games, Important

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1986). “Science of Hitting”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control.

  Joe Murray

  Dimes, World, Spinning

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• Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

  Graham Greene

  War, World, Adultery

  Graham Greene (1988). “The Captain and the Enemy”

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• We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

  Julian Huxley

  Size, Way, Investment

  "Philosophic Ants". "The Borzoi Reader", edited by Carl Van Doren, p. 548, 1936.

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• The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

  Steve Forbes

  Simple, Would Be, Cards

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• He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

  Petronius

  Purses, Pennies

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• No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

  Laura Esquivel

  Passion, Successful, May

  Laura Esquivel (2001). “Swift as Desire: A Novel”, Crown Pub

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• Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Real

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• Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

  George Chapman

  Ducks

  Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

  James Brown

  Responsible, Taxes, Knows

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• A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

  Gene Fowler

  Men, Dollars, Fool

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• In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

  James Grant

  People, Investing, Walks Of Life

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• Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.

  Margo Kaufman

  Talking, Chance, Investment

  Margo Kaufman (1997). “This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America”, Dell Books

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• O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

  William Shakespeare

  Falstaff, Labor

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1”, p.525

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• Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

  George Carlin

  Guy, Littles, Facts

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

  George Carlin

  Church, Want, Plates

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