George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Money
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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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