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1. "Poor people have problems; rich people have challenges."

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Quotations about: Question and Problem

2. "Econometrics have successfully predicted 14 of the last 3 recessions."

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Quotations about: Science and Technology

3. "Taxpayer: A government worker with no vacation, no sick leave and no holidays."

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Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Various

4. "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

Warren Buffett

5. "There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

Frank Buchman, "Remaking the World"

Quotations about: Egoism -:- Justice

6. "Never lend money. It causes amnesia."

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Quotations about: Memory

7. "Money and Success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there."

Will Smith

Quotations about: Success and Fame

8. "Italy is a poor country full of rich people."

Richard Gardner

Quotations about: History and Nations

9. "An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Various

10. "It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges."

John Maynard Keynes

11. "Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

12. "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotations about: Various

13. "What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"

Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

14. "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity in the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor

15. "I sincerely believe [...] that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Thomas Jefferson, (letter to John Taylor)

16. "Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life."

Mason Cooley

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

17. "One of the most difficult tasks in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money."

E. W. Howe

Quotations about: Woman and Man

18. "The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile."

Woodrow T. Wilson, "Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson"

19. "The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty."

Mason Cooley

20. "Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Various

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21. "It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."

Logan Pearsall Smith

22. "More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth."

Napoleon Hill

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

23. "When you stop chasing money, it stops running away."

Agnieszka Lisak

24. "Money doesn't like fools but fools love money."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

25. "Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

Napoleon Hill

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

26. "Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Gooseberries"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

27. "We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

Anthony Burgess

28. "Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

29. "Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

Quotations about: Justice

30. "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

Jane Austen

Quotations about: Happiness

31. "Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?"

Mark Hanna, "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"

Quotations about: Human

32. "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"

Ayn Rand

Quotations about: Good and Evil

33. "Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears."

Robert W. Sarnoff

34. "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."

Herman Melville

Quotations about: Human

35. "There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin

36. "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."

Jackie Mason

37. "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Success and Fame

38. "It’s not money that brings happiness, it’s lots of money."

Russian proverb

Quotations about: Happiness

39. "Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour."

Anthony Trollope, "The Belton Estate"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

40. "Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old."

English proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

41. "When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Devil and the Good Lord"

Quotations about: Peace and War

42. "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."

Victor Hugo

Quotations about: Human

43. "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

Ogden Nash

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

44. "A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. "

Alexander Smith, "Dreamthorp: Essays Written In The Country"

Quotations about: Memory

45. "The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday."

Georg Büchner, "The Hessian Messenger"

Quotations about: Life and Death

46. "Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, Second Series"

47. "If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water."

Herman Melville, "Israel Potter"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

48. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love

49. "Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

John Updike, "Couples"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

50. "The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some."

George Bernard Shaw, "Heartbreak House"

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