A Quote by P. T. Barnum

Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.

P. T. Barnum

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P. T. Barnum
American - Entertainer
July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

Daymond John

All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.

Malcolm X

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

George Bernard Shaw

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.

Albert Parsons

Be your money's master, not its slave.

Publilius Syrus

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

Charles Spurgeon

Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

Horace

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

P. T. Barnum

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

P. T. Barnum

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Alice Oswald

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

Cory Booker

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Lecrae

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

Malcolm X

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

John D. Rockefeller

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Leo Tolstoy

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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