Money & Business Sayings

93 sayings found from the Modern era from 93 authors

The Negro is indolent and lazy and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.

— Che Guevara 1965 (Congo diary)
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Plant trees for the benefit of a decade, Invest in human capital for the benefit of a century.

— Ho Chi Minh Unknown
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

— John D. Rockefeller unknown
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

— J.P. Morgan unknown
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I have been in business for fifty years, and I have never seen a man who could not be bought.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt unknown
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I feel like a negligent mother for my poor Mansfield Park, so little loved by all.

— Jane Austen 1814 (approximate, after publication)
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He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

— Edgar Allan Poe 1849
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Fortune favors the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur 1854
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The public will probably never understand the difficulties that beset the path of the original investigator.

— Alexander Fleming circa 1940s
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The results of my investigations have been confirmed by many other workers.

— Robert Koch 1880s
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People say, 'What about the poor people?' I say, 'They're not going to be any poorer.'

— James Watson Unspecified
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I am not interested in fame or fortune. I am interested in truth.

— Linus Pauling Unknown
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It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day.

— Vincent van Gogh 1888
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Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

— Andy Warhol c. 1970s-1980s
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I can't sleep, and I haven't slept, for I am thinking of the poor fellows who are to die tomorrow.

— Abraham Lincoln c. 1860s
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

— Winston Churchill 1943
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To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

— Mao Zedong 1941
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

— Mahatma Gandhi 1925
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The poor dear always thinks he is right.

— Queen Victoria c. 1850s
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

— Vladimir Lenin circa 1918-1921
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