Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Money Quotes, Character Quotes

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

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To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

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He who is greedy is always in want.

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I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

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Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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