Financial Quotes #1

"A rich man is one with knowledge, happiness and his health."
- Lonnie "Common" Lynn

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
- Honore de Balzac

"Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff."
- Will Rogers
1879-1935

"Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes little sense for those who know what they're doing"
- Warren Buffet

"Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous."
- Robert Kiyosaki

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben

"Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing."
- Robert Kiyosaki

"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience."
- John D. Rockefeller
1905, 1839-1937, the richest man of all time, worth $200 billion (in 2001 USD)

"Greed is wanting something for nothing."

"I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop."
- Robert Kiyosaki

"I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks."
- Mark Burnett

"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."
- Louis Agassiz

"I had a dollar. I had a friend. I gave my dollar to my friend. Now I have no dollar and have no friend."
- unknown

"I'd rather be rich and unhappy then poor and unhappy."
- unknown

"If money is the root of all evil, then why do churches beg for it?"

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