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"I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others."
"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
"Since I'm known as a 'rich person', I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year."
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave."
"A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year."
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
"I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes."
"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel."
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories."
"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given."
"Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else."
"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."
