Bank Accounts Quotes - Page 6

• When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

  William James

  Children, Men, Thinking

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.293, Harvard University Press

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• The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Differences, Next

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• Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Guilt, Hats, Clean

  Ambrose Bierce (1911). “The collected works”

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• You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

  Anne Lamott

  Personality, Clay, Spirit

  Anne Lamott's Commencement Address at University of California in Berkeley, California, www.salon.com. July 6, 2003.

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• Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.

  Randy Komisar

  Live Life, Order, Needs

  Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.13, Harvard Business Press

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• Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

  Lydia Lunch

  Considerate, Be Considerate, Accounts

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• What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Giving, Important

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• Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Example, Stories, Limits

  "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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• Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Keys, Long

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• Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

  Ana Monnar

  Heart, Character, Ethnicity

  Ana Monnar, “Quotation”

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• Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of social capital so that when hard times strike, we can draw down on that bank account.

  Michelle Gielan

  Meaningful, Hard Times, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Age, Care

  "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life". Book by Alice Schroeder, October 27, 2009.

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• We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Children, Home, Mean

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by the death of ex-Secretary of the Interior [Franklin K.] Lane. He remained in public service, doing most noble work, until his means became absolutely exhausted, and he died before having had the opportunity to reaccumulate any bank account.... He died leaving no estate whatsoever. Is what he did leave more to be desired, more to be coveted, than a fortune reaching into six or seven figures?

  B. C. Forbes

  Gratitude, Mean, Opportunity

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• I think the thing about capitalism is it's an evil necessity, capitalism. Communism has been tried and failed, and socialism, that doesn't work very well. Capitalism works, but the problem about capitalism is it does mean that a few individuals become very wealthy. Therefore, I think those individuals have enormous responsibility to redistribute that wealth either by creating new businesses or creating new jobs and making sure that money just doesn't lie in a bank account for future generations.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Lying, Mean

  "George Negus interviews CEO and founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 2, 2008.

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• There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records.

  Paul Ryan

  Should Have, People, Cards

  "Ryan Coauthors Electronic Medical Records Bill to Reduce Medical Errors, Lower Health Care Costs". paulryan.house.gov. July 12, 2007.

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• I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a case for my own exceptionalism, which I suppose I am, but I wish it wasn't true.

  Tony Burgess

  Shoes, Wish, Sound

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• Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Issues, Bills, Greedy

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• Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Kids, College

  "Plutonomy and the Precariat" by Noam Chomsky, www.thenation.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

  Dan Barber

  Vegetables, Withdrawal, Soil

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• ... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

  Lois Wyse

  Office, World, Nine

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• American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

  Harry Reid

  Government, Balance, Should

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• Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

  George Ade

  Money, Men, Risk

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.

  Richard Branson

  Dollars, Lucky, Needs

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

  Walter Cronkite

  Winning, Battle, Pay

  "Free the Air Waves!" by Walter Cronkite, www.gothamgazette.com. November 4, 2002.

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