Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die."
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Money
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Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end."
Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another."
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
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"Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money."
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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
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"The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization."
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"Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving."
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"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
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"The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
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"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."
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"It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success."
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"Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count."
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"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."
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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
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"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
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"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
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"To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that."
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"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process."
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"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns."
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