Work & Money Sayings

239 sayings found from 239 authors

I'm told that the only difference between a mathematician and a physicist is that a mathematician thinks about mathematics and a physicist thinks about physics. And a physicist is always trying to get a mathematician to do his dirty work.

— John von Neumann 1940s-1950s
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With Malice toward none, with Charity for all, with Firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in...

— Abraham Lincoln 1865
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The seven social sins: politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi 1925
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My policies are based not on some economic theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up to believe: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by for a rainy day; support the police, and above all, look …

— Margaret Thatcher 1981
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

— Dwight Eisenhower 1950
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Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

— Sun Tzu c. 5th century BC
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

— Adam Smith 1762-1763
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Pleasure is the business of women, according to the present modification of society, and while it continues to be so, little can be expected from such weak beings.

— Mary Wollstonecraft 1792
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No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And what is true of the baby is true of the scientist.

— B.F. Skinner 1956
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing…

— Virginia Woolf 1929
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I'm a very successful woman. I've achieved a lot in my life. I've won a lot of awards. I've sold a lot of records. I've performed for a lot of people. I've made a lot of money.

— Aretha Franklin 2014
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I'm a very successful woman. I've achieved a lot in my life. I've won a lot of awards. I've sold a lot of records. I've performed for a lot of people. I've made a lot of money.

— Whitney Houston 2009
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I never thought I'd be in pictures. I never thought I'd be an actress. I never thought I'd be married. I never thought I'd have children. I never thought I'd be working for UNICEF. I'm astounded by life.

— Audrey Hepburn 1989
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We do hereby command the citizens of San Francisco to pay unto us, their Emperor, such taxes as we may deem necessary for the support of our Imperial government.

— Emperor Norton 1860s
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Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, big business, and government.

— Terence McKenna 1994
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I will give them my credit card number and tell them to buy whatever they want. They will say, 'Oh, I want this Gucci bag.' I will say, 'You don't need a Gucci bag. You need to be able to make your own money.' And then I will take the credit card bac…

— Andrew Tate 2022
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To the extent that money, with its colourlessness and its indifferent quality, can become a common denominator of all values, it becomes the frightful leveller — it hollows out the core of things, their peculiarities, their specific values and their …

— Georg Simmel 1900
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We're so excited, we don't know what to do, because we're about to reenter the level above human. And we feel like my Older Member and the crew working with my Older Member has said to us 'We can't wait any longer! I mean, we've done everything we ca…

— Marshall Applewhite 1997
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Work conquers all.

— Virgil c. 29 BCE
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