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Money Quotes by David Korten
- When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.…
- Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a…
- To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that…
- Money is a mechanism for control.
- As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution…
- As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.
- There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to…
- Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.
- My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often…
- Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more…
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen