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Money and Success Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver. Tom Peters You can't have everything. Where would you put it? Stephen Wright While the grass is always greener on the other side, there's shit on both sides. SueAnn Never call a man a fool; borrow from him. I owe, I owe, I owe ... so off to work I go. Canada Bill Jones' motto- It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. Supplement- A .44 magnum beats four aces. Money talks, bullshit walks. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty Many speak the truth when they say they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. Colton A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant person grows poor by seeming rich. Shakespeare Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and the money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson If you have the money, you speak the truth. Chinese proverb The fame of the great ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it. La Rochefoucauld By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends. Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. Robert W. Sarnoff Necessity is the mother of thievery. Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul. Norman Mailer Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once. Stephanie Luethekehans The shortest way to riches is by contempt of riches. Seneca It's lonely at the top, but you eat better. Where there's a will, I want to be in it. The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes I'd rather change my mind and succeed than have my own way and fail. Robert Schuller Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. Artemus Ward No one was ever as rich as all of us ought to be. John Ray Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. Success is full of promise until we get it; then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown. Henry Ward Beecher The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own. Michael Korda Pigs and rich folk are best appreciated after their death. Russian proverb The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. Lucretius Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular? The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor Where money talks, the truth keeps silent. Russian proverb There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde Injury due to money is not mortal. French proverb There is always room at the top. Daniel Webster Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow a promissory note, but today is cash. There's a sucker born every minute. Phineas Taylor Barnum You bet said the gambler. Two can live as cheaply as one for half as long. Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. Lazarus Long The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. He that hath pity on the poor lendeth unto the load. French proverb To know how to do without is to possess. Renard Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. Mark Twain Rich people are just poor people with money. The stock market has called nine of the last five recessions. Paul Samuelson People who risk nothing have nothing. French proverb If a rich person is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates The lack of money is the root of all evil. Mark Twain Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a person is and what he might be. H. G. Wells To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive and shut when thou shouldest repay. Ecclesiastes If you ever find something you like, buy a lifetime supply because they will stop making it. He is not to be called a true lover of wisdom who loves it for the sake of gain. Dante I'm tired of love, I am still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time. Hilaire Belloc Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. Ingemar Bergman Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. Kenny Rogers Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. John Wesley Creditors have better memories that debtors. Benjamin Franklin Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches. Emerson Money isn't everything, it's the only thing. All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. Logan Pearsall Smith The trite objects of human efforts -possession, outward success, luxury- have always seemed to me contemptible. Albert Einstein Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses. Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth. Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Budget: A method for going broke methodically. All I ask is a chance to prove money can't make me happy. It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. Alan Alda Money, to be worth striving for, must have blood and perspiration on it - preferably that of someone else. Wilson Mizner Virtue has never been as respectable as money. Mark Twain The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken No matter how hard we scrape and save, there's always some bastard out there who's having fun. Footprints on the sands of success are not made by sitting down. Frost IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got. Who will not lay up a penny will never have many. Thomas Fuller It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2006. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/wmonsuc.html |