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"Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday."
"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
"In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?"
"Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther."
"We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings."
"To a shower of gold most things are penetrable."
"We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities."
"Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich."
"At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?"
"You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you."
"Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer."
"The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth."
"But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!"
"A great fortune is a great slavery."
"Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die)."
"Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively."
"Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil."
"No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found."
"Everything you gather is just one that you can lose."
"I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX collect."
