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• If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Stones, Philosopher

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

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• Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Doe, Economy

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Successful, People

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• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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• The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Freedom, Giving

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• There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Poetry, Wealth

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

  Carl Sandburg

  Blessing, Roots, Evil

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Dollars, Investing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The key to making money is to stay invested.

  Suze Orman

  Keys, Think Twice, Making Money

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

  Groucho Marx

  Misery, Form, You Choose

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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Greatest Wealth, Next Day

  "The Big Lie Exposed: The Future is Not Predictable" by Jeff Schweitzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2009.

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• The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

  James Madison

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Liberty

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.538

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• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Debt Free, Owing A Debt, Riches

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• God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Believe, Men, Use

  Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers, an American Dynasty (1976)

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• Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
  [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

  Horace

  Mean, Honest, Ifs

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• We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

  Anthony Burgess

  Degrees, Needs, Desperation

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Focus, Purpose

  Barack Obama's commencement speech at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Funny Love, Witty, Women

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter!

  Robin Harris

  Fool, Quarters, Cents

  "Fictional character: Sweet Dick Willie". "Do the Right Thing", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

  Marya Mannes

  Eye, Desire, Female

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Money often costs too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Greatest Wealth, Contentment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Needs, Certain, Pursue

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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