Work & Money Sayings

239 sayings found from 239 authors

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

— Indira Gandhi Unknown
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

— Plato c. 375 BCE
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The business of men is to be happy; but in this world, I think it is enough if we can avoid being miserable.

— John Locke 1690
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

— Voltaire c. 1760s
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

— Thomas Hobbes 1651
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Madness is the absence of a work of art.

— Michel Foucault 1961
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That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

— Noam Chomsky 2015
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Thinking is a dangerous business.

— Hannah Arendt 1978
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If you want to be rich, do not heap up riches, but diminish your desires.

— Epictetus c. 108 AD
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It is not the business of the public to think, but to see.

— Montesquieu 1721
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

— Henry David Thoreau 1854
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The English working class is, after all, only a branch of the German working class.

— Friedrich Engels 1870 (July 26th)
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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.

— Ayn Rand 1957
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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

— Diogenes c. 350 BCE
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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

— Edmund Burke 1791
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous, but to make them safe.

— Jeremy Bentham c. 1780s-1820s
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The future is not about robots taking our jobs, it's about algorithms taking our decisions.

— Yuval Noah Harari 2018
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Men are not built in silence but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

— Paulo Freire 1968
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