"Remember, that money is of the prolific,..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
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“Speak little, do much.”
“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.”
“What I am to be, I am now becoming.”
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“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.”
“Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.”
“Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.”
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“I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.”
“What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?”
“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”