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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.
I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often read more
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell read more
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance read more
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the read more
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense read more
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
