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• He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man.
  I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man....
• Don't invest all your money in just one or two stocks.
  That's the danger. I know a man who put all his money in just two stocks, a paper-towel company and a revolving-door outfit....
• The successful business man sometimes makes his money by ability and experience
  but he generally makes it by mistake. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson (1874-1936)...
• There was a college student trying to earn some pocket money by going from house to house offering to do odd jobs.
  He explained this to a man who answered one door....
• Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it. -- Kin Hubbard
• Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Every Man in his Humour, Act ii, Sc. 3...
• If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he looses money.
  -- New England proverb...
• There's a man deeply in debt, see, and he takes the money he has left and goes to Monte Carlo to try to recoup at the roulette tables.
  Won a little, lost a lot, and was down to his last franc....
• A man who fishes for marlin in ponds will put his money in Etruscan bonds.