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money evil gains
Charles Caleb Colton To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
money greatest-wealth want
Charles Caleb Colton Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
money battle half
Charles Spurgeon economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.
money people saving
Alan Watts So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
money thinking people
Alan Watts The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
money children clothes
Alan Paton And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
money law issues
Alan Greenspan As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
money gold wealth
Alan Greenspan Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.
business soul prosperity
Charles Dickens Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
business fighting men
Charles Caleb Colton An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
business men morality
Charles Dickens Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
Charles Dickens The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Charles Stross Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"
business past derivatives
Alan Greenspan It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
business colleagues depends
Alan Greenspan ...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
Alan Greenspan What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
Alan Greenspan I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
philosophical heart men
Charles Dickens I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.
philosophical men magic
David Hume Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
philosophical growth divinity
David Hume Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
philosophical world advantage
David Hume No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
philosophical opinion certain
David Hume When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.
philosophical discovery topics
David Hume THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.
philosophical men human-nature
David Hume Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
philosophical men interest
David Hume Men often act knowingly against their interest.
philosophical numbers competition
David Hume And what is the greatest number? Number one.