“Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167
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“Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.”
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2000s, 2005

“The best way to save money is not to lose it.”
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“It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 4, The Concept of Hoarding, p. 32

“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”

As quoted in Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson, p. 123
2010s

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