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"God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies." -- Jean Anouilh , playwright
"Success produces success, just as money produces money." -- Diane Ackerman , American-born author, writer
We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford
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
"Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise." -- Peter's Almanac
"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. -- Sir James Matthew Barrie , writer
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money." -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz , zoologist, geologist
"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." -- Josh Billings , humorist, essayist
"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience." -- Ludwig van Beethoven , composer
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford
"I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual." -- John Fellows Akers , business executive, Chairman of IBM
"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him." -- Sir Francis Bacon , philosopher, essayist
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford
"The only thing I like about rich people is their money." -- Lady Nancy Astor , English politician, first female member of the British Parliament
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes... -- Dave Barry
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey
Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate,
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton
A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde
"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." -- Kurt Herbert Alder , German chemist
"On packing: Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money." -- Susan Butler Anderson
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." -- Wystan Hugh Auden , writer
"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" -- Joachim du Bellay , poet
"Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves." -- Josh Billings , [Henry Wheeler Shaw] humorist, essayist
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde

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		Management Insights Finance Management "God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies." -- Jean Anouilh , playwright "Success produces success, just as money produces money." -- Diane Ackerman , American-born author, writer We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford 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 "Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise." -- Peter's Almanac "You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. -- Sir James Matthew Barrie , writer "I cannot afford to waste my time making money." -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz , zoologist, geologist "The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." -- Josh Billings , humorist, essayist "Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience." -- Ludwig van Beethoven , composer If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford "I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual." -- John Fellows Akers , business executive, Chairman of IBM "If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him." -- Sir Francis Bacon , philosopher, essayist The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford "The only thing I like about rich people is their money." -- Lady Nancy Astor , English politician, first female member of the British Parliament The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes... -- Dave Barry The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." -- Kurt Herbert Alder , German chemist "On packing: Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money." -- Susan Butler Anderson "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." -- Wystan Hugh Auden , writer "Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" -- Joachim du Bellay , poet "Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves." -- Josh Billings , [Henry Wheeler Shaw] humorist, essayist It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde IIM Executive Education and Management Training IIM experts research, develop and disseminate management-best-practices and learned-lessons from the leading management gurus. For advanced executive education and training opportunities, please refer to IIM Management Training Courses
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