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"While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery."
"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
"I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?"
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
"Money is a great servant but a bad master."
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
"The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes."
"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."
"I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts."
"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."
"Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it."
"Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all."
"A man with money is no match against a man on a mission."
"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."