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“Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.”

Ifs Wells Heart Money Greed Sake Intellect Defects Cunning Avarice Cleverness Meanness Misers Imbecility

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.”

Thinking World Evil House Money Numbers This World Six Understood Greed Sake Planes

Author:Kevin Bacon

“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”

Knows Men Hours Wealth Money Business Sake Waking Pathetic Despicable

Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

“I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.”

Thinking Term Money Sake Remembered Vulgar Posterity

Author:Orson Welles

“Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?”

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

“Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.”

Art Money Sake Saving Money

Author:Simon Raven