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• 05.12.11
  Music Quote – Fiddler on The Roof – If I Were a Rich Man Fiddler on the Roof | (0)

  Dear God, you made many, many poor people. I realize, of course, that it's no shame to be poor. But it's no great honor either! So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?" If I were a rich man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I'd biddy biddy bum. If I were a wealthy man. I wouldn't have to work hard. Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. If I were a biddy biddy rich, Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man. I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen, Right in the middle of the town. A fine tin roof with real ...

  Tagged: happiness, love of money, money, poor, rich, wealth, work
  
• 03.16.11
  Benjamin Franklin Quote – The most trifling actions that … Benjamin Franklin | (0)

  The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at at tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day, demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump. It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, ...

  Tagged: credit, debt, habits, industry, money, success, work, working
  
• 02.21.11
  Oscar Wilde Quote – Industry is the root of all ugliness Oscar Wilde | (0)

  Industry is the root of all ugliness. - Oscar Wilde ((From Phrases and Philosophies For The Use Of The Young in The Prose of Oscar Wilde, pg. 308))

  Tagged: industry, work
  
• 02.16.11
  Ayn Rand Quote – So you think that money is the root of all evil? Ayn Rand | (0)

  So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men ...

  Tagged: greed, money, value, work, working
  
• 02.14.11
  Robert M. Pirsig Quote – We do need a return to individual integrity … Robert Pirsig | (0)

  My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. God, I don't want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality out. These can be left alone for a while. There's a place for them but they've got to be built on a foundation of Quality within the individuals involved. We've had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it, and now it's just ...

  Tagged: government, individualism, productivity, quality, rich, work
  
• 02.13.11
  Benjamin Franklin Quote – I do not pretend to give … Benjamin Franklin | (0)

  To Benjamin Webb A New Method of repaying Money lent. Passy, 22 April 1784 Dear Sir, I have received yours of the the 15th instant, and the memorial it enclosed. The account they give of your situation grieves me. I send you herewith a bill for ten louis d'ors. I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country with a good character, you cannot fail of getting into some business, that will in time enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when you ...

  Tagged: business, character, debt, giving, lending, money, pay it forward, work
  
• 02.13.11
  Robert Benchley Quote – Anyone can do any amount of work … Robert Benchley | (0)

  A GREAT many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.  My answer is "Don't you wish you knew?"  and a pretty good answer it is, too, when you consider the nine times out of ten I didn't hear the original question. But the fact remains that hundreds of thousands of people throughout the country are wondering how I have time to do all my painting, engineering, writing and philanthropic work when, according to the rotogravure sections and society notes I spend all my time ...

  Tagged: efficiency, production, success, time, work
  
• 02.11.11
  Thomas Hobbes Quote – I merit by virtue of my own power … Thomas Hobbes | (0)

  He that performeth first in the case of a contract, is said to "merit" that which he is to receive by the performance of the other; and he hath it as "due."  Also when a prize is propounded to many, which is to be given to him only that winneth; or money is thrown amongst many, to be enjoyed by them that catch it; though this be a free gift; yet so to win, or so to catch, is to "merit," and to have it as"due."  For the right is transferred in the propounding of the prize, and in throwing ...

  Tagged: giving, merit, work
  
• 02.05.11
  Malcolm Gladwell Quote – Autonomy, complexity, and a connection … Malcolm Gladwell | (0)

  Autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. - Malcolm Gladwell ((Outliers (2008), p. 149 via Fire and Knowledge))

  Tagged: satisfaction, success, work, working
  
• 02.04.11
  Adrian Rogers Quote – You cannot legislate the poor … Adrian Rogers | (2)

  You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear ...

  Tagged: government, handouts, poor, poverty, taxes, wealth, work
  

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