“Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?”
The Principles of Anarchism
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Lucy Parsons16
American communist anarchist labor organizer 1853–1942Related quotes
“We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian-British politician, judge, and author
The Clockmaker (1836); comparable to "Remember that time is money" in "Advice to a Young Tradesman" (1748) by Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) American Labor Leader[AFL]
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
“There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
The Guardian [UK] (23 May 1992)
“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.”
O. Henry book The Four Million
"The Gift of the Magi" - Full text online http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html <br class="br">The Four Million (1906)
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, (1964)
“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“For every dollar spent in failure, learn a dollar’s worth of lesson.”
Jesse Robbins (1978) American entrepreneur
Quoted in article by Eric Ries about lean startup movement. http://venturehacks.com/articles/five-whys-2
