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William Lyon Phelps

"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."

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Donna Grant

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

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Donna Grant

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

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Donna Grant

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

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Donna Grant

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

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Donna Grant

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

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Donna Grant

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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Donna Grant

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

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Donna Grant

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

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Donna Grant

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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William Lyon Phelps
"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."

Business

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William Lyon Phelps
"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."

Money

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William Lyon Phelps
"A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him."

Body

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William Lyon Phelps
"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."

Love

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William Lyon Phelps
"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."

Time

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William Lyon Phelps
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

Reading

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William Lyon Phelps
"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."

Life

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William Lyon Phelps
"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."

God

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William Lyon Phelps
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."

Nature

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William Lyon Phelps
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."

Happiness

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