"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." ~ Warren Buffett
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest." ~ William Shakespeare
"He who is greedy is always in want." ~ Horace
"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed." ~ Lau Tzu
“When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.” ~ Yoga sutras
“The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” ~ John Maynard Keynes
"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted." ~ Seneca
"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it." ~ Socrates
"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly." ~ Samuel Butler
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." ~ Jonathan Swift
"Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes." ~ Jesse Livermore
"Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed." ~ Confucius
"Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history." ~ Ayn Rand
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly." ~ Chinese Proverb
"The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible." ~ Ram Dass
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires." ~ Epicurus
"Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed." ~ Benjamin Graham
"The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself." ~ Benjamin Graham "The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion." Bodhidharma
"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” ~ Ayn Rand "Money often costs too much." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person." ~ Socrates, quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
"Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame." ~ Ayn Rand
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