The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
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