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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

— Themistocles

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

— W. C. Fields

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

— Howard Hughes

If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.

— George Eastman

You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

— Ayn Rand

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

— Zig Ziglar

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

— Cathy Freeman

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

— Pablo Picasso

✗Opposing Perspectives

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

— Orison Swett Marden