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come to strengthen the currency.
Everything belongs to someone
Difference drives commerce, it drives envy, it steers.
A friend is a fellow investor.
In America, even the boys are men.
We have more possessions and live longer than animals.
Praise your boss’s faults and mimic his virtues.
No two prices are the same.
Wealthy by anyone’s standards: wise, independent, and content.
When the Founder asked me what he could do for me, I told him: let
me be useful.
Great crowds are the strength of the citizenry.
Money is the purest medium.
The first time I saw a computer, I bought it.
We can only explain you, bum, by assuming your mother was penniless
the night she begot you.
To be strict and optimistic is a judicious response to those who want
money; it will demonstrate for them what it is they truly lack.
To be saved from folly you need either trustworthy friends or well-paid
employees. To be saved from ruin, know the meaning of trustworthy
and well-paid.
Children are genetic capital.
Before you go into a job interview, it is best to practice on statues.
It was when I decided to leave The Fund, that I did my best work:
ensuring good feelings.
When my brother, now a senior citizen and restaurant manager, asked
me why I was late to dinner at his house, I said I didn’t want
to watch him work.
Experience turns a woman from loving handsome men, to loving successful
men. Just so, experience turns a young man from giddiness with quick
riches, to respect for paying one’s dues.
When I was called to the board to account for an error I made, I told
them I’d only come to see how great other men can be.
Why India, friend? Can you not buy their rich cigars and pretty sandals
in America?
Ask some old money for a hundred dollars, and they give you a thousand.
They do not give as they are asked, nor act as if they earned it.
Share a plate of oysters with old money, and they will savor each
bite, talk discursively, even let fall napkins – anything to
make sure you eat more than your share. Their type is easy, their
generosity is stylized greed, their magnanimity degrades.
If you’re going to be a dog, you might as well be a bad dog.
If you’re going to be a man, though, be a man.
Those without money lecture us on the rich.
Happy is the man who decides to marry and says "I do", who
plans a voyage and embarks, who knocks on the door of an influential
man, and wins influence.
Raising sons: teach them mathematics, and athletics. Business itself,
and history are not essential, and can be learned later. Teach them
how to make someone smile, talk nicely, how to be respectful to gain
respect. Teach them to discriminate among near things, and how to
use a mirror. Teach them to scorn the ordinary, but to praise it when
necessary. Instruct them in countenance, so that no feeling governs.
No piercings or tattoos or strange haircuts. They should speak loudly,
move busily, listen attentively, drive fast, and calculate odds in
their heads.
In a poor man’s house, one can spit anywhere.
Philosophers are confused merchants.
The poor have made leisure an affliction.
Making small men large, ugly men handsome, sick men healthy: the enemy
of genetics and friend to equality: cash cold cash is the oil in the
engine of democracy and luck in the sleeve of those dealt a bad hand.
$350,000 will get you a Bentley. $2,000 will get you a used KIA.
Employees should obey their employers; patients, their doctors; investors,
the trends.
Against fate I put courage; against custom, ambition; against nature,
man.
Take those who loudly proclaim themselves the honest poor: show them
your wallet, and lean in to hear them quietly lie they don’t
pain for it. It is far easier to find a rich honest man than a rich
poor man; envy breeds hypocrisy.
There are no gods, only men.
The statue of the president being erected in the Capital should bear
the inscription: American Aphrodite.
The wage worker is more curious about what he sees on TV than what
he sees with his own eyes.
If you’re going to steal, steal big. Little thieves are punished
ruthlessly.
Do not give money to panhandlers; they’ll think it their salary.
Had to steal a peek at the nametag to know whether it was man or woman.
A magician his tricks; a great man his wealth - know enough not to
show the stuff.
The last time I was there, the mayor included me in her toast.
In business and in love, there are virgins and don juans.
Go about with your poverty showing, and people will say you’re
mad. Go about with your riches displayed, and people will be mad to
cultivate your acquaintance
If you do business with a dog, why are you surprised if he pisses
on you?
The arts: the better you are, the worse for you.
Young man impatient with ambition, be thankful for the job you have
at a better man’s pleasure.
There is no such thing as a bad job.
The difference between good and evil is the difference between short-term,
and long-term profit.
Man’s mind is a marketplace.
If it won't sell, I'm not buying.
Observing soup kitchens should teach you the power of ambition.
Handshakes strengthen memory.
A good teacher will instruct you to cultivate your image as much as
your learning.
There is no stick hard enough to drive me away from a man whom I can
better in a deal.
Watch a cashier, a laborer, a cleaning woman, and you will conclude
that man is the stupidest of animals. But watch a dealmaker, a fund
manager, or a diplomat, and you will wonder whether creation can display
a finer thing.
Poverty is a halter. Any man with a grip will yank it.
“Never hd a job, but always had a deal.”
All contests over ideas aspire toward and simulate trade. Why not
trade instead?
Profit is that rare dish which only tastes good when made at home.
Even the homeless have toadies: pigeons squawk for their breadcrumbs.
Knowing a man’s true worth is to know him as God knows him:
naked, as he truly is.
The rich have all the time in the world.
Ultimately, publishers aspire toward printing money. Writers too,
aspire toward minting: that their books would be heavy currency, a
standard of value far and wide.
Money is form of life. A dollar bill: a leaf which no longer needs
the tree.
Eager to get published, young man? yank a well-crafted balance from
your printer.
Memory is a kind of money, accruing interest with the years. The longer
it obtains, the more valuable, so long as it’s no counterfeit.
Freud studied men, not money.
I must admit, when toureing The Mint, I had to go to the men’s
room nearly every quarter hour.
Women, shop deep.
Hell, I imagine, is like a description of the isle of Mota I once
read: "creditors are for ever roaming about, trying to raise
at least some of the money and pigs they have leant."
A good party can only take place where you cannot smell anything.
In civilized nations, referees determine who wins.
There are great men, there are great names. There are great names,
there are great men.
Men who wish to endure must learn sooner or later to cherish money.
The future is accelerating backward.
White man much foolish, but envy of all.
There is no luck, only lucky money.
Nothing is so useful as the law, for the law makes all men useful.
Youth who throw off work for love grow up to whine they haven’t
coin for whores.
I want to create a perfect money.
Chastity? Solvency.
A wise man is disguished by balanced principles. The common mind is
taken by extremes and exaggerations: like pornography, it disregards
proportions, and sacrifices the whole to the part.
Does money have a shape?
They say the greatest misery is to be old, poor, and alone. And they
are right -- though it’s redundant to specify alone; it follows
the other two.
Her name? No, no, no show me her picture.
Learn early to flatter, lick boots, or cajole, according to your temperament.
Flatter others, but never flatter yourself lest you choke on too much
honey.
A pretty co-worker is poisoned candy.
If it’s true what they say, that I am not a philosopher because
I talk much of money, I ask what is more modern and more classical,
what more valued and despised, what more misunderstood than money?
What then is more deserving of a philosopher’s time?
People who speak well and do nothing are wrongly reviled. One good
speech can set many thousand hands to work.
‘Aren’t you ashamed to sing?’ I began to the cowardly
young man, ‘when you could be sung of?’
There are still poets in this age, but they do not write with words.
Survival, success. One for servants, one for masters.
How much money do I make?
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