A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
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All money is a matter of belief.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
It's not the having, it's the getting.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.