"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Money, Being

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"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."

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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

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"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."

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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

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