Quotes, A Collection of Wit and Wisdom

Money is a lot like cow manure. If you spread it around, it can do a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. ~ Clint W. murchison

*** By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. ~ Lenin

** Money makes you feel better even if you don't like the stuff. Joe Louis.

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Everything you do, it's always got a price tag on it." ~ Lawrence Block

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The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally. ~ Karl Marx

I've known Tale Wins through many years of thick and thin. I've known Tale Wins when he was rich; I've known Tale Wins when he was poor: Rich is better. Lin Stone

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Avoiding this monetary predicament takes maturity and planning. I can only help you with the planning; See your mother about the maturity. ~ Lin Stone

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When your money is all gone you only have 3 options. Beg, borrow and steal. Work is not an option. ~ Lin Stone

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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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You will never own anything you didn't pay for. ~ Ernest Haycox

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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~ Ben Franklin But do YOU know what a penny looks like? No cheating now. Click HERE and see if you can pass the test, spot the REAL penny in this series of common coins.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means.. ~ Oscar Wilde

Is it love? Or is it just fiscal attraction?

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If we jumped from 1913 to 2011 overnight then heads would roll in the streets for months, but since the damage to our coin of the realm has been done incrementally our heads just wag in pity at anybody that can't understand the natural change in the price of our small change. ~ Lin Stone

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Think of Giving not as a duty but as a Privilege. John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." Woody Allen

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If you want to make a lot of money without working your best bet is buying lottery tickets and crossing your fingers. Greg Hughes

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Wisdom says to have a year's supply of food and be free of debt. Most of us have a year's supply of debt and our pantries are free of food. Thomas S. Monson.

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Lin Stone

In the arsenal of revolution, inflation is the perfect weapon. W.B. Vennard

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Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes its laws. Amschel Meyer Rothschild

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Rich people admire other successful people; poor people resent them ~T Harv Eker

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Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. Disraeli

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In tough economic times, people care a lot more about the money they're spending. Drew Patterson

It is better to lean into the stiff wind of opportunity than to hunker down and do nothing. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

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If inflation gets any worse the cops caught stealing apples will be facing Grand Larceny charges. ~ Lin Stone

In a depression we couldn't buy groceries because we had no money. In a recession we had better buy more groceries before the price goes up again. In a repression you hide your gold in a hole in the ground and hope nobody was watching. ~ Lin Stone

Money, being so important these days, reaches us full blown with the urge to spend it before our credit card companies find out we have it.

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Nobody needs a vacation during a recession; they are already broke enough.

The Viet Cong gave me a better room than this and I didn't have to pay for it.

After wars, enemies trade? Why did we pay cash for 4 years of war when credit was on the way?

He never pays a dollar in wages until he has memorized the serial number.

A $3.00 bill saved now is a $3.00 bill I can spend later. That's almost as good as spending a $2 bill twice.

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He's saving his money for a rainy year.

He inherited his father's talent for drinking on an empty wallet.

He's the only man in the state with a handicap tag because he's hard of spending.

Insanity runs in his family; they keep wiring him for money.

Being rich hasn't changed him a bit; he still has the first million dollars he embezzled.

I didn't lose near as much at the races last week; I didn't go.

In dealing with the IRS what you do isn't important, it is what you call it. ~ William Hazlett Upson

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