Pecuniary Quotes

22 quotes by 17 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 â€“… — Eli Pariser
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
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
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. — Abraham Lincoln
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. — Susan B. Anthony
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
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
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
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
I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; Iâ€™ve a use for it.' 'And… — Charlotte Bronte
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

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