Pennies quotes

Pennies

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Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker

"Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes."

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Conrad Aiken Poet, Novelist
Pennies

"All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
Pennies

"Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Pennies

"Every time I see a coin on the street, I stop, pick it up, put it into my pocket, and say out loud "Thank you, God, for this symbol of abundance that keeps flowing into my life" Never once have I asked, "Why only a penny, God? You know I need a lot more than that.""

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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
Pennies

"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny."

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Hetty Green Businesswoman, Investor
Pennies

"... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract."

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Bryan Adams Singer-Songwriter
Pennies

"I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Pennies

"Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one."

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