#poor

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#comforts #goes #gold #guinea #high

I think I'm a very poor piano player. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#i think #piano #piano player #player #poor

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#basically #be the first #cocktail #first #good

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#dollars #down #dress #first #first lady

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beauty #i #look #poor #slums

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#man #poor #rich #successful #successful man

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#choose #comes #competence #elements #hand

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. ↗

— Chris Martin

#become #benefit #bled #countries #dry

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. ↗

— Karl Marx

#backs #get #off #poor #rich

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#judge #named #poor #whoever