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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914“Diversions of an Idler: Some Negligible Epigrams”, in Cosmopolitan, vol. 39, no. 4 (August 1905) p. 444
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 1
Pennies don’t fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet (12 November 1979)
I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself⁠—in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.
Henry Ford1863–1947
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they’d say, ‘We’ll let you know.’
JCJohn Cassavetes
- Movies
I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.
Henny Youngman1906–1998
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51In context
Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again.
MCMatthew Clayfield
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
Brian Tracyborn 1944
- Intelligence
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allenborn 1935Without Feathers (1975), “The Early Essays”.