Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Quote by James A Garfield

Topics: Poverty Quotes

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small...

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small...

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry...

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry...

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the...

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the...

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came

Suicide is not a remedy.

Suicide is not a remedy.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a...

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a...

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea...

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea...

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the...

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the...

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

I am a poor hater.

I am a poor hater.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry...

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry...

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he...

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he...

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a...

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a...

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.