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The substitution of monetary values for all other values is pushing society toward a dangerous disequilibrium.
The Cnsis of Global Capitalism (1998)
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
I've always had a place for every dollar that came in. I've never seen the day where I could say that I felt rich. Generally you have to worry about paying the bills.
Interview, Evening Standard [London](1974)
If you can actually count your money then you are not a really rich man.
Quoted in The Pendulum Years (1970)
That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
Dollar making is not necessarily business.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it.
My Life and Work (rewritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
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