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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

— Robert Menzies

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

— Herman Melville

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

— Samuel Johnson

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

— Epictetus

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

— Adam Michnik

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

— Orison Swett Marden

✗Opposing Perspectives

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

— Samuel Richardson

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

— Orison Swett Marden

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib