Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
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“Buy a business, don’t rent stocks.”
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On the film rating system, as quoted in The New York Times (5 May 1985)
“If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it.”
"Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist
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Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
“Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Interview in Forbes magazine (1 November 1974)
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Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
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Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
Context: There does not seem to be cause for alarm in the dual relationship of the press to the public, whereby it is on one side a purveyor of information and opinion and on the other side a purely business enterprise. Rather, it is probable that a press which maintains an intimate touch with the business currents of the nation, is likely to be more reliable than it would be if it were a stranger to these influences. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are moving impulses of our life. The opposite view was oracularly and poetically set forth in those lines of Goldsmith which everybody repeats, but few really believe: 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.'.