"How do we know that if we give a load of money to starving people,
that they are not gonna blow it all on food?" - Philomena Cunk
"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." - Andreew Carnegie
"When banks fail it is seldom bankers who starve." - Terry Pratchett
"Why should people who aren't on fire be asked again and again and
again to subsidize these imflammable people who seem to want something
for nothing?" - Mark Steel
"You know why I wouldn't go to space? It's full of freaking billionaires." - Adam Burke
"I have been thinking that the obituaries of rich people should contain the number of trees they planted while alive." -Oluwatoyin Kole
"The best things in life are expensive." - Peter Berryman
"As I travel around this big old world there's one thing I most fear. It's a white man in a golf shirt with a cell phone in his ear." -Tom Russell
"Retail therapy is buying things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like." - Martha Chavez
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
"Chicago is a city where rich and poor stand side by side, ignoring each other." - Max Allan Collins
"A man of large purse has usually a very little soul which he keeps in it.” - Edgar Allan Poe
"People don't like people who are indigent... They think they can catch it." - Lisa Sandlin
"Once again the invisible hand of the free market shows us a single finger." - Lorrie B. Potters
"When you come from poor, poor is always in your head." - Michelle Richmond
"Camping is very much the rich man's sleeping on the floor." -Jayde Adams
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -John Maynard Keynes
"Some people are so poor, all they have is money." -Bob Marley
"They will always get most who are meanest." - Thomas Jefferson
"The top ten hedge fund managers make more than all the kindergarten teachers in the United States." - Joseph J. Ellis (2018)
"A small coin held close to the eye blocks out the world." - Rabbi Harold Schulweis
"If there was a shred of truth to the claim that the rich are our nation's job creators, then given how rich the rich have gotten, America should be drowning in jobs!" -Nick Hanauer, multi-millionaire.
"My experience is that no one ever has enough money, especially the rich." - Paul Lees-Haley
"I spent the coin I used to toss." - John Fullbright
"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time." - Willem de Kooning
"By the time I make a million dollars, they'll have a coin for it." -Erik Frandsen
"Poverty - real poverty - separates you from the rest of the world in a way that nothing else - not race, not gender, not sexuality, not religion - can do. You are forever outside, watching through the window at the party everyone else is enjoying." -Victor J. Banis
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." - Herman Melville
“There’s such a thing as actors paying their mortgages too publicly.” Simon Brett
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” -Woody Allen
“I’m truly sorry to have caused inconvenience.” – Mark Karpeles, owner of Mount Gox, on having lost $450 million of his customers’ money.
“The more I buy, the more I’m bought.” -Joe Pug
"If you want to break even at the casinos, play the change machine!" – Utah Phillips
"Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse.” - Terry Pratchett
"I've been on welfare and food stamps...did anyone help me?" - Craig T. Nelson
“I’m going to be enormously rich and moving up to a lower tax bracket.” - Garrison Keillor.
"I never bought a man who wasn't for sale." -Senator William Andrews Clark, Montana
"Beyond a certain amount, money costs too much." -Michael Z. Lewin
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment or diversions but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." -Adam Smith, The Wealth Of Nations
"Th e creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times." -Benjamin Franklin
"This particular American view of 'success' ...as near as I can make it out, is the ability to keep out of jail." -Charles Dudley Warner, 1896
"He owns a private yacht that he can sail on any time, because he never wants to miss the boat again."-Maury Meulheisen,
"Poverty buys me stranger things than money." -Ethel Romig Fuller
"Money can't buy off the lightning." -Stephen King
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attraction asthat from which they draw their gains." -ThomasJefferson
"Wealth is a great predicter of topography." -Patrick Irelan
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