Making Money quotes

Making Money

356 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist

"But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Making Money

"An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment."

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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
Making Money

"We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular."

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