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There isn't a part of our lives that money doesn't touch - it affects our relationships, the way we go about our everyday activities, our ability to make dreams reality, everything.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

there's a lot more satisfaction in thinking about money than in spending it, if people only knew.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

These broke rappers always rappin bout a pink truck. I'm only happy when I'm hoppin out the Brinks truck.

The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work; not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.