“Do not pursue money. He who pursues money will never achieve it. Serve! If you serve as best as you can, you will not be able to escape money.”

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch.3

The Cork Co-Operator (1939)

Source: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americas Wealthy

Source: John Caldigate, Ch. 53

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)

you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.

The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)

Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)