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“There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.”

Men Kind Order Money Lows Chickens Mentality Foxes Get Money Shrewdness

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.”

Order Wealth Money Cutting Taxes Highest Raises Broke Statesmanship

Author:Will Rogers

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.”

Knows Order Three Differences Money Millions Crazy Taxes Vote

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.”

“Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.”

Firsts Government Remember Order Money Taken Dollars Get Money

Book:I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

Source: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”

“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”

Men Want Mean Ends Whole Happiness Order Money Effort Taken Forgotten Devoted Earning Money Happiness Earning Money

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.”

Want Long Lasts Order Money Brain Enemy Flesh Reasonable

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.”

Mind Self Order Wealth Money Teach Virtue Acceptance Habit Train Saving Denial Saving Money Self-denial Forethought Orderliness

Author:Thornton T. Munger

“You don't have to die in order to make a living!”

Funny Order Dies Inspiring Money Stupid

Author:Lynn Johnston

“Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.”

Children Order Poor Money Gains Our Children Good Things Insane Your Children Estates Seventies Funny Money

Author:Woody Allen

“History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.”

War Order Money Libertarian Lasting Endeavor Cooperation Anti War Antiwar Coercion Peace War Great War Make Peace Not War Dissidents Peace Not War Bayonets Unanimity Cost Of War

Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

“What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.”

Believe Action Order Belief Goal Can Do Money Cases Rich Achieve You Can Do It Believe You Can Being Rich Achieving Your Goals Become Rich

Author:Suze Orman

“... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.”