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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

—Willie Nelson, musician

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man
winning than the man who inherited his father’s store or farm.

—C. Wright Mills, sociologist

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants.
Mostly it’s women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

—John Steinbeck, author (from his novel The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961)

A banker: the person who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and
wants it back the minute it rains.

—Anonymous

Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won’t get you a job, but it will keep
Kleenex in business.

—Jarod Kintz, writer (from his book 99 Cents for Some Nonsense, 2012)

Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making
money they haven’t time to see other girls.

—Doris Lilly, gossip columnist