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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates470–399 BC
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Mark Twain1835–1910
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
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- Work
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919“How Not To Better Social Conditions” in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776)In context
- Work
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates470–399 BC
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘check enclosed.’
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593
- Love
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.
Mae West1893–1980
- Men
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Model Millionaire (1912)