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"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds"
Sophocles, Author
"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"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything, may well be suspected of doing everything for money"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Creditors have better memories than debtors"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Very few people can afford to be poor"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it"
Ronald Reagan, President
"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it"
Victor Hugo, Author
"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"Prices are important, not because money is considered paramount, but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life"
Henry Ford, Businessman
"It is not how much one makes, but to what purpose one spends"
John Ruskin, Writer
"You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Finance, like time, devours its own children"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"The most efficient labor-saving device is still money"
Franklin P. Jones, Journalist
"Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases"
Donald Trump, Businessman
"The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't, things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from"
Donald Trump, Businessman
"If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'"
Donald Trump, Businessman
"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard"
Will Durant, Historian
"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation"
Warren Buffett, Businessman
"If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash"
Jack London, Novelist
"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation"
Ross Perot, Businessman
"I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"People who work sitting down make money more than individuals who work standing up"
Eli Khamarov, Writer
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