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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

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

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 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 you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

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.

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

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

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.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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.