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"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."
"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."
"If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole."
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."
"a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making."
"Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others."
"The big print giveth and the small print taketh away."
"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
"The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store.""
"A fool and his money are soon partying."
"We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity."
"Having money is just the best thing in the world."
"A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in."
"The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people."
"Time is a waste of money."
"It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes."
"Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count."
"One man's wage increase is another man's price increase."