"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money."
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"If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal."
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"Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it."
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"The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people."
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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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"Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money."
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"There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails."
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"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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"I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house."
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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
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"Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us."
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"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."
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"A fool and his money are soon married."
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"If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money."
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"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."
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"Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster."
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
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"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."
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