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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]
A fool and her money are soon courted.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
A nickel isn't worth a dime today.
A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.
Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.
Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!
Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.
Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.
God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Good management is better than good income.
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
I don't even get an allowance.
I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.
I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.
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