Pecuniary Quotes
22 quotes by 17 authors
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money…
— William Cobbett
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In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and…
— James Madison
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Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an…
— George Washington
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It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the…
— Charles Babbage
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I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the…
— Nathan Hale
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But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom,…
— Lucy Stone
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives…
— Thorstein Veblen
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It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you –…
— Eli Pariser
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Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
— Abraham Lincoln
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and…
— Theodor Adorno
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As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment…
— George Washington
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Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would…
— Maxwell Perkins
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The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have…
— Lysander Spooner
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I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And…
— Charlotte Bronte
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary…
— Leland Stanford
Who Wrote These Pecuniary Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 22 Pecuniary Quotes as follows: