Work & Money Sayings

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to work for it.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The business of men is to be happy; but in this world, I think it is enough if we can avoid being miserable.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

Madness is the absence of a work of art.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Thinking is a dangerous business.

If you want to be rich, do not heap up riches, but diminish your desires.

It is not the business of the public to think, but to see.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

The English working class is, after all, only a branch of the German working class.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

He used to say that the most beautiful thing in the world was the universe, for it was the work of God.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous, but to make them safe.

The future is not about robots taking our jobs, it's about algorithms taking our decisions.

Men are not built in silence but in word, in work, in action-reflection.