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0413dd8 Top 15 Things Money Can't Bu character class common-sense dignity happiness health inner-peace inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes integrity life life-quotes love manners money morals patience respect time trust Roy T. Bennett
9404e35 A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned funny inspirational money Benjamin Franklin
ca18827 As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. eternal-life human-desire immortality money wisdom J.K. Rowling
02b73fa This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. money Douglas Adams
cff0ccf A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. money on-writing virgin women writing Virginia Woolf
b8bf2a4 It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, attention compassion happiness happy-life inspirational kindness life love meaning-of-life meditation money oneness peace perspective philosophy positive-attitude positive-living purpose purpose-in-life purpose-of-life purposeful-living respect revelation self-awareness self-discovery spirit spirituality wisdom Amit Ray
86f2d6f When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. defeat goal goals inspirational life money motivation self-help career Napoleon Hill
11b5af9 The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation. mind-power money motivational new-age positive-thinking self-help stephen-richards wealth worthy Stephen Richards
c9ec45e Beauty is a whore, I like money better. beauty life money Michael Cunningham
a860231 When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. mind-power money motivational new-age positive-thinking self-help stephen-richards wealth worthy Stephen Richards
c028bc7 Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. fame goodness honesty honor money riches Louisa May Alcott
fe41069 I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you. money nicholas-sparks the-last-song Nicholas Sparks
39b1ea4 A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end. money pursuit-of-happiness Albert Camus
56dd826 Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane. alcoholism drinking heartbreak insane mental-illness money Craig Ferguson
3a71da7 People who want to make a million borrow a million first manhattan money shopaholic Sophie Kinsella
bfb1fc1 Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul money war Bob Dylan
673e8e2 Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. copperfield debt dickens frugality income micawber money motivational pecuniary Charles Dickens
3364a3e You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin. money Rachel Caine
4c4e6b8 And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate. money Dodie Smith
6eacc8e "You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate." money poverty Raymond Chandler
daa3a05 "Anybody have any money?" Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian." Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and--score! A piece of celery." He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next." -- food frank-zhang humor money percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena Rick Riordan
3d91d6a "Anybody have any money?" Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian." Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and--score! A piece of celery." He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next." food frank-zhang humor money percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena Rick Riordan
b6dbab0 Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it. imagine know money old sarcasm young Oscar Wilde
21eb47f [Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. debt money Charles Dickens
4330736 In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? humor medicine money Terry Pratchett
8775c11 "I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set." fitting-in materialism mind-set missions money sickness worldliness John Piper
b93b30d I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places. money Nora Roberts
6d6ba95 America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce. money sex Peter Kreeft
33e8ebc "Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking." decisions influence life money opinions success Napoleon Hill
da2c685 Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. greed love money Gustave Flaubert
9dccba0 "Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?" money rich Edith Wharton
d326e2f In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people. class-warfare economics labor money profit Adam Smith
b4e2299 What good is money if it can't buy happiness? money wealth Agatha Christie
16d400b The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War. money politics power war Hunter S. Thompson
760660e Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. money motivation Robert A. Heinlein
63b0c36 Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons government money Robert Anton Wilson
28ac45e There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died. going-postal greed life money philosophy-religion terry-pratchett Terry Pratchett
9faeca3 How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows--this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That's what things look like in our cities at present class-warfare courage cowardice inequality money neighborhoods oppression poor poverty urban urbanization wealth Robert Walser
ac93f57 Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. design detroit london money paris rome urban-planning Jeffrey Eugenides
9e8869d If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean--even if it did build muscle--whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period... the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities. conundrums desire groundhog-day life money old-age opportunity parents philosophy self-contradiction tiresias wishful-thinking women youth Christopher Hitchens
4aee65c You become what you think about inspiration money success Napoleon Hill
c1e02e4 The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. economics humor money P.G. Wodehouse
4ea1fd8 Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile. money physician wealth John Hersey
2dc6bc4 If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money money William Gaddis
c568136 Gold is the corpse of value... money value Neal Stephenson
ca8bf8c The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people. money religion Terry Pratchett
a4ac9b8 Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. money the-winter-of-our-discontent John Steinbeck
5c05ec8 NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. economics money morality society Terry Pratchett
baa241d You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. gentleness love material-things money power substitute tenderness Mitch Albom
5999e19 I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman. money murder noir women James M. Cain
3283f64 "Take off your hat," the King said to the Hatter. "It isn't mine," said the Hatter. "Stolen!" the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact. "I keep them to sell," the Hatter added as an explanation; "I've none of my own. I'm a hatter." hats hatter mad-hatter money steal thief trade wonderland Lewis Carroll
6c43c2b The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny. girlfriends money relationships Kathy Acker
2967688 Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven. christianity god heaven help kingdom luxury money poverty provision riches sharing stewardship wealth Randy Alcorn
fff65a8 There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated. money Kate Jacobs
eb049b3 No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can. money murakami owe Haruki Murakami
423e5ec No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. god love money Anonymous
a158273 Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During periods of so-called economic depression, for example, societies suffered for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably disclosed that there were plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What was missing was not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called 'money.' It was akin to a starving woman with a sweet tooth lamenting that she couldn't bake a cake because she didn't have any ounces. She had butter, flour, eggs, milk, and sugar, she just didn't have any ounces, any pinches, any pints. The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves. economic-depression money recessions wealth Tom Robbins
0c0ce2c Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. knowledge money value Louis L'Amour
9dc2e9c "Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent." humor money talent Brandon Mull
c522223 I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all. love money Max Barry
8130f9f Money talks and walks, but it does not bark. bloodhound clary-goodwin goodwin money tamora-pierce Tamora Pierce
dd85300 I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler) gone-with-the-wind margaret-mitchell money rhett-butler war Margaret Mitchell
cefadf9 You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. money Edgar Allan Poe
693987f The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself. food inspirational money moon-palace peom planet poetry smelling Paul Auster
55bf816 They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor. money position truth world Libba Bray
9007f9a Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as 'Harshaw's Law. money Robert A. Heinlein
0eb9b43 The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man. financial-history history money Niall Ferguson
08645e8 Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever. happiness money Nicholas Sparks
7054189 ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee. money William Shakespeare
5d7500b There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. greed money murder poison William Shakespeare
82081ba But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it. john-steinbeck lives money the-grapes-of-wrath value worth John Steinbeck
aa65057 I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper. impossibility money power William Golding
aaff25d God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11) excess generosity giving less money more selfishness sharing spending spoil stewardship Randy Alcorn
4e0bf2e Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing. money value worth Margaret Atwood
7f870e5 Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way. corruption crime injustice justice money prison Raymond Chandler
0682fd1 My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. inspirational money parenting religion James McBride
a550add Wealth is good when it brings joy to others. money wealth Og Mandino
9185732 Sex is like money; only too much is enough. love money passion power sex John Updike
14f112f "I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don't care a straw about, but somehow, I've not been able to begin." "You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure." money motivation occupations E.M. Forster
a225880 I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I've a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.' 'Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.' 'Just let me look at the cash.' 'No, sir; you are not to be trusted. money Charlotte Brontë
18a6f3a "The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not. But of course interns are paid, in experience." money work Joyce Carol Oates
092c57b ...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. american jhumpa-lahiri life money the-namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
6d0af77 "Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster'n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum--" "You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it. "That's right, sir," said Shady. "And down that road madness lies." "It's a very short road," said Moist, nodding." currency government money overtime Terry Pratchett
236b191 If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. money productivity simple-life simple-living work Henry David Thoreau
f70b9d1 They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains. greed money pride relationships society Richard Kadrey
7ccd24a "When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions." community money questions stranger T.S. Eliot
8900cd5 No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case? finance love money sense sincerity Honoré de Balzac
538ec3c The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly. Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. The State does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe. labor money occupations work working Henry David Thoreau
0c9b943 Money is the honey of humanity. money Fyodor Dostoyevsky
74708c9 As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me. debt food money nature wealth Margaret Atwood
6c6fa25 "Maybe, when you hear the name "Beverly," you think of Beverly Hills--people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money." money Denis Johnson
07416a7 Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money. money privilege John Fowles
35aa81f Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting. money Gustave Flaubert
4eef2e9 Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score. materialism money success wealth Michael Connelly
7105a21 I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure. fake-friends fake-people generosity money power Hanif Kureishi
676c51c And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money. money time Douglas Coupland
c372237 Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. law money power Kim Stanley Robinson
ef6bd90 He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange. economic money theory Robert A. Heinlein
d54f71b "Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn't be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb. He saw a time when one man would know only one little fragment, but he would know it well." "Yes," Lee said from the doorway, "and he deplored it. He hated it." "Did he, now?" Adam asked... "Now you question it, I don't know," he said. "I don't know whether he hated it or I hate it for him... Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small... Maybe kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming atom-sized in their souls. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses! The whole world over his fence!" "We're only talking about making a living." "A living? Or money?" Lee said excitedly. "Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury, and they want love, and they want admiration." knowledge money specialization John Steinbeck
a377f93 My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a . credit-cards identity-theft money Bill Maher
0dc207f That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets. money P.G. Wodehouse
0140d91 Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin. democracies free-speech money opinion organizations values Alain de Botton
7d4e7d9 Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade--with reason, not force, as their final arbiter--it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability--and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil? francisco-d-anconia money Ayn Rand
87aca47 I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash. money property Louisa May Alcott
7b60acb ..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do. money obedience stewardship tithing Randy Alcorn
b50fcc6 ...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well. earning enough family materialism money more needs others scripture selfish stewardship Randy Alcorn
6df3eb7 What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? money recession Michael Lewis
bd80beb Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. giving mission missionary money wealth John Piper
d3b6869 She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did. credit economy money saving spending John Steinbeck
56548e3 What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation. material-goods meaning money things triviality wealth Alain de Botton
0ce5998 "You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques." honest life money phony sex truth J.D. Salinger
c0eab14 There's just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one. money truth wreck Margaret Mitchell
47e7cbd So you think money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim you product by tears, or of looters, who can take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? money money-issues morality philosophy root-of-money Ayn Rand
85a23e9 For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them. money Niccolò Machiavelli
f77840a Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony-the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste. money tv Craig Ferguson
c9f8131 No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it. brandi-l-bates-quotes brendon-burchard ceo chess elizabeth-gilbert entrepreneur entrepreneurship entrepreneurship-quotes inspiration investments money motivation ownership personal-development self-help-inspirational success wealth Brandi L. Bates
7cb6833 Quienquiera que se inventase eso de que el dinero no hace la felicidad, se regocija Lloyd Hooks, esta claro que no tenia bastante. español felicidad happiness money spanish David Mitchell
d1858f5 "For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure, the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. To tell him that it is disgusting to spend one's life shoveling up hot money work Henry Miller
b06149a Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living. cash james-bond lifestyle money resorts Paul Kyriazi
12f7fbd Money holds terrible power when it is loved christianity money Elisabeth Elliot
2940af1 In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment. business investment money success Sophie Kinsella
2b35498 Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments. money philosophy warren-buffett Roger Lowenstein
f69f568 Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face. millionaire money petals-on-the-wind rich rich-people smirk V.C. Andrews
ab727f0 Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth. liberalism money social-gospel socialism Fulton J. Sheen
984c8f8 During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president--only the second impeachment hearing in American history--you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through. bill-clinton carol-blue chauvinism corruption democratic-party-us elections history impeachment impeachment-of-bill-clinton lies misogyny money new-democrats new-hampshire pathology politics presidents republican-party-us sexism trials united-states us-presidential-election-1992 us-presidents us-senate women Christopher Hitchens
096837c "A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my -- dealer -- here tells me that in fact a picture is worth only what someone will give for it. How much money do you have?" Julia took out her purse and counted. "Four francs and twenty sous," she said, looking up at him sadly. "Is that all the money you have in the world?" She nodded. "Then four francs and twenty sous it is." money perception subjectivity value Iain Pears
980c98b God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously. heaven help kingdom money s wealth Randy Alcorn
369b008 In some circumstances, a focus on extrinsic rewards (money) can actually diminish effort. Most (or at least many) teachers enter their profession not because of the money but because of their love for children and their dedication to teaching. The best teachers could have earned far higher incomes if they had gone to banking. It is almost insulting to assume that they are not doing what they can to help their students learn, and that by paying them an extra $500 or $1,500, they would exert greater effort. Indeed, incentive pay can be corrosive: it reminds teachers of how bad their pay is, and those who are led thereby to focus on money may be induced to find a better paying job, leaving behind only those for whom teaching is the only alternative. (Of course, if teachers perceive themselves to be badly paid, that will undermine morale, and that will have adverse incentive effects) extrinsic-rewards inequality money teachers Joseph E. Stiglitz
488e16d You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy. luck money Margaret Atwood
b20838b "The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true." companies conditioned conditioning deceit fame goals good happiness indicators is lies life looks meaning media money of possessions power secular society success successful truth western what Tim Crawshaw
60491de "...What do you do with all your money?" "Me and the French hoard gold." funny gold hoarding humor money Dashiell Hammett
4917332 Everything seemed so clear to him now that he could not stop wondering how it was that everybody did not see it, and that he himself had for such a long while not seen what was so clearly evident. The people were dying out, and had got used to the dying-out process, and had formed habits of life adapted to this process...And so gradually had the people come to this condition that they did not realize the full horrors of it, and did not complain. Therefore, we consider their condition natural and as it should be. Now it seemed as clear as daylight that the chief cause of the people's great want was one that they themselves knew and always pointed out, i.e., that the land which alone could feed them had been taken from them by the landlords. And how evident it was that the children and the aged died because they had no milk, and they had no milk because there was no pasture land, and no land to grow corn or make hay on...The land so much needed by men was tilled by these people, who were on the verge of starvation, so that the corn might be sold abroad and the owners of the land might buy themselves hats and canes, and carriages and bronzes, etc. landlords money ownership Leo Tolstoy
f717c98 "Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor." Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. "Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources." money offended opportunity poor potential worth Kim Harrison
d68340e You are the stuff of which consumer profiles - American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model - are made. When you're staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn't it make sense to order the best Scotch that money can buy before you go to the theater in your private limousine? illusion money Jay McInerney
8b79128 What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them; they loved wealth before they loved life. money Georges Perec
0c381a4 America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John D. Rockefeller made $1 billion a year, measured in today's money, and paid no income tax. No one did, for income tax did not yet exist in America. Congress tried to introduce an income tax of 2 percent on earnings of $4,000 in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Income tax wouldn't become a regular part of American Life until 1914. People would never be this rich again. Spending all this wealth became for many a more or less full-time occupation. A kind of desperate, vulgar edge became attached to almost everything they did. At one New York dinner party, guests found the table heaped with sand and at each place a little gold spade; upon a signal, they were invited to dig in and search for diamonds and other costly glitter buried within. At another party - possibly the most preposterous ever staged - several dozen horses with padded hooves were led into the ballroom of Sherry's, a vast and esteemed eating establishment, and tethered around the tables so that the guests, dressed as cowboys and cowgirls, could enjoy the novel and sublimely pointless pleasure of dining in a New York ballroom on horseback. money new-york parties wealth Bill Bryson
098d3dd Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich. honesty integrity money rich Margaret Peterson Haddix
8784850 Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained? money politics Ina May Gaskin
58c7c92 Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money. money work L.M. Montgomery
a4999d8 Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power. money money-vs-power power what-people-want Cecelia Ahern
b3afb0a Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor? money James Clavell
cc7193b There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over. money relationships Ted Dekker
f31a8a6 Money! Money! Money! shrieking mad celestial money of illusion! Money made of nothing, starvation, suicide! Money of failure! Money of death! Money against Eternity! and eternity's strong mills grind out vast paper of Illusion! illusion money Allen Ginsberg
ca73c8b The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you're made of steel. money Paul Auster
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