Money & Business Sayings

248 sayings found from 248 authors

Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

— John Locke 1689
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

— Voltaire Uncertain, 18th century
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Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau Unknown
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It is not the business of the law to make people good, but to prevent them from doing harm.

— John Stuart Mill 1859
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As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

— Benjamin Disraeli Unknown, likely mid-19th century
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It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue.

— Francis Bacon 1625
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Life in the NBA breaks down like this: 50% sex, 50% money.

— Dennis Rodman c. 1990s-2000s
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is lent us in life: the higher the interest, the more we have to pay.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
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Anything you're good at, you can make money from. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

— Bertrand Russell Approx. 1940s-1950s
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

— Albert Camus 1971 (published posthumously)
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The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

— Epicurus c. 300 BCE
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Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance, and be ready to let it go.

— Marcus Aurelius c. 161-180 AD
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

— Seneca c. 65 AD
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It is not poverty that makes a man miserable, but covetousness.

— Epictetus c. 108 AD
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Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

— Sun Tzu c. 5th century BC
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His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.

— Howard Hughes Approx. 1930s-1940s
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Americans think they can buy friendship with money.

— Chiang Kai-shek 1950s
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

— Henry David Thoreau 1854
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In bourgeois society, capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

— Friedrich Engels 1848
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I am convinced that the greatest evil in the world is not poverty, but inequality.

— Alexis de Tocqueville 1835
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