Money & Business Sayings

93 sayings found from the Modern era from 93 authors

My face has been my misfortune. It is a mask I cannot remove. I must always live with it.

— Hedy Lamarr 1966
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I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way!

— Anne Frank 1944
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I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

— Marilyn Monroe 1950s
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If the man were to try and pretend to be the machine he would clearly make a very poor showing. He would be given away at once by slowness and inaccuracy in arithmetic.

— Alan Turing c. 1950
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

— Leon Trotsky Unknown
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1963
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I am a victim of the American way of life, where they expect you to be a goddess, a cook, a mother, a hostess, a business woman, a sex kitten, and a superwoman, and if you don't do it, they put you in a mental institution.

— Sylvia Plath 1959
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Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

— Allen Ginsberg 1955
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The America I grew up in was a country that made things. It made cars and steel and refrigerators and washing machines and television sets. Now we make money. We make money by moving money around.

— Kurt Vonnegut 2005
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I could earn more money if I just did a few things and sold them for lots of money. But I would rather have a lot of people owning my work than a few rich people owning my work.

— Keith Haring 1980s
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Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not wort…

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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I'm not a rich man.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat unknown
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I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liber…

— Frederick Douglass 1852
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