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The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs.
— Mark Galli, Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly golden opportunities do not arise to benefit oneself, but in order to benefit others.
— Etienne de L'Amour, Life on the Flipside
People write for ego gratification, not money.
— Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore
Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.
— Cathie Pelletier, Once Upon a Time on the Banks
After all, as Franco would dictate, everyone was going to lose their money at some point. You may as well do so half drunk and at the mercy of a pretty smile.
— Christopher Byford, Den of Shadows
Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.
— John    Rogers, Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?
Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck
— Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.
— Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
Money is just one of the forces that blind us to information and issues which we could pay attention to - but don't. It exacerbates and often rewards all the other drivers of willful blindness; our preference for the familiar, our love for individuals and for big ideas, a love of busyness and our dislike of conflict and change, the human instinct to obey and conform and our skill at displacing and diffusing responsibility. All of these operate and collaborate with varying intensities at different moments in our lives. The common denominator is that they all make us protect our sense of self-worth, reducing dissonance and conferring a sense of security, however illusory. In some ways, they all act like money; making us feel good at first, with consequences we don't see. We wouldn't be so blind if our blindness didn't deliver rewards; the benefit of comfort and ease.
— Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.
— William Golding, The Spire
She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz, Admission
In treating people as less important than things, work becomes both demoralised and demoralising and we become blind to the moral content of our decisions...Money and wilfful blindness make us act in ways incompatible wiht what believe our ethics to be, and often even with our own self-interest...the problem with money isn't fundamentally about greed, although it can be comforting to think so. The problem with money is that we live in societies in which mutual support and co-operation is essential, but money erodes the relationships we need to lead productive, fulfilling and genuinely happy lives. When money becomes the dominant behavior, it doesn't cooperate with, or amplify, our relationships; it disengages us from them.
— Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
— H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain
At only ten a.m., Edgar found himself already eyeing the Doritos on the counter. One thing he hadn't anticipated about the 'home office' was Snack Syndrome; lately his mental energies divided evenly between his new calling (worrying about money, which substituted neatly for earning it) and not stuffing his face.
— Lionel Shriver, The New Republic
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.
— Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Haven't you enough money?'For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.
— Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political conten­tion.
— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
— George Horace Lorimer
England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.
— Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.
— Amanda Quick, Burning Lamp
This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on matters human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke such words of life as were never spoke before or since and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator poet; without writing a single line, He set more pens in motion and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times.
— JOHN SCHAFF
But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?
— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer.Even the people you're paid to shoot at?Well, yeah. There are customers we serve, and customers we service.-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn & General Tagon
— Howard Tayler, Resident Mad Scientist
. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.
— Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination....hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job.Okay, see? Those words I understand just fine. Use them more often.-Lieutenant Massey Reynstein & Captain Tagon
— Howard Tayler, Emperor Pius Dei
Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.
— Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.
— Christopher Penczak, The Witch's Coin: Prosperity and Money Magick
When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially.
— Anne Lamott
I spend my money...I don't know on what.
— Mike Nichols
Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'Old Misery's savings,' he said. 'Mike ripped out the mattress, but he missed them.''What are you going to do? Share them?''We aren't thieves,' T. said. 'Nobody's going to steal anything from this house. I kept these for you and me - a celebration.' He knelt down on the floor and counted them out - there were seventy in all. 'We'll burn them,' he said, 'one by one,' and taking it in turns they held a note upwards and lit the top corner, so that the flame burnt slowly towards their fingers. The grey ash floated above them and fell on their heads like age. 'I'd like to see Old Misery's face when we are through,' T. said.'You hate him a lot?' Blackie asked.'Of course I don't hate him,' T. said. 'There'd be no fun if I hated him.' The last burning note illuminated his brooding face. 'All this hate and love,' he said, 'it's soft, it's hooey. There's only things, Blackie,' and he looked round the room crowded with the unfamiliar shadows of half things, broken things, former things. 'I'll race you home, Blackie,' he said. ("The Destructors")
— Graham Greene, Shock!
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
— Robert W. Sarnoff
Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.
— John Lanchester
Look at a coin from your pocket. On one side is "heads" - the symbol of the political authority which minted the coin; on the other side is "tails" - the precise specification of the amount the coin is worth as payment in exchange. One side reminds us that states underwrite currencies and the money is originally a relation between persons in society, a token perhaps. The other reveals the coin as a thing, capable of entering into definite relations with other things.
— Keith Hart
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
— Seneca, The Conquest of Happiness
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, The Grapes of Wrath
(Regarding check-cashing places):It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.
— Angela Nissel, The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke
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.
— Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
If money management isn't something you enjoy, consider my perspective. I look at managing my money as if it were a part-time job. The time you spend monitoring your finances will pay off. You can make real money by cutting expenses and earning more interest on savings and investments. I'd challenge you to find a part-time job where you could potentially earn as much money for just an hour or two of your time.
— Laura D. Adams, Money Girl's Smart Moves to Deal with Your Debt
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
— Christina Stead, House of All Nations
Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is
— Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary
Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.
— Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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.
— Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The money… will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations.
— Terry Pratchett, Making Money
The first rule in making money is not to lose it.
— Steven J. Lee, The Money Plan: Creating Personal Wealth for a Secure Future
Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.
— Steven J. Lee, The Money Plan: Creating Personal Wealth for a Secure Future
...the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over? Isn't it fairer to look at them both as opportunities, which may be used either stupidly or intelligently, according to the capacity of the user?
— Edith Wharton
Think of the power we could have if all the energy and effort in the world – or maybe even just your energy and effort? – that goes into drinking were put into resisting, building, creating. Try adding up all the money anarchists in your community have spent on corporate libations, and picture how much musical equipment or bail money or food it could have paid for – instead of funding their war against all of us.
— CrimethInc., Anarchy and Alcohol
Up before sunrise. Marjorie hated getting out of bed in the dark, but loved the payoff once she was dressed and rolling down the country roads in the first light, cruising and owning them almost alone. The countryside here used to be a lot more interesting, though. She remembered it in her girlhood - orchards, small ranches, farmhouses, each one of these houses a distinct personality... Money, she thought wryly, scanning the endless miles of grapevines, all identically wired and braced and drip-lined, mile after mile - money was such a powerful organizer.As the dawn light gained strength, and bathed the endless vines in tarnished silver, it struck her that there was, after all, something scary about money, that it could run loose in the world like a mythic monster, gobbling up houses and trees, serving strictly its own monstrous appetite. ("The Growlimb")
— Michael   Shea, Best New Horror 16
Money is permission to live.
— H L Humes
Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.
— Emma Frances Dawson, An Itinerant House, And Other Ghost Stories
Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans
— Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.
— George Soros, The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.
— John Sherman
Money does not smell of the mire whence it came
—  it has the glorious scent of what will be.
And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.
— Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.
— Elizabeth Gunn, Crazy Eights
And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.
— Robert   Harris, Pompeii
Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Money never sleeps, pal
— Michael Douglas
The money is mine, not yours,” Reginald reminded her. “You ungrateful wretch. I found you an earl to marry, and your son will be an earl.”“You chose yourself a son-in-law,” Regina said. “You traded me for a title.”“You will thank me—”“—for dying and leaving me in peace.”“You will regret those words some day.”“I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.
— Patricia Grasso, Seducing the Prince
Do you come from old money, new money, or no money?
— Ana Monnar
An old liar told me hereTo think ahead and save my money.I should have spent it on ribbons.I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather playedWhen the daft wife heard him resoundingIn the deep pine woods in early November.
— Menzies McKillop
Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that account for money. Here on Earth you have given money a symbolism such as no medium of exchange has anywhere else I have ever known or heard of. You have made it a power and a virtue and you have made the lack of it despicable and somehow even criminal. You measure men by money and you calibrate success with money and you almost worship money.
— Clifford D. Simak, They Walked Like Men
If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta make $ for the biz (employer), if you choose not to make $ for yourself (freelancer / ent).
— Richie Norton
Every cent you own and every moment you spend is always an investment.
— Natalie Pace, Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth from a #1 Wall Street Stock Picker
A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.
— Natalie Pace, The ABCs of Money
Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don't realize it makes them slaves. It's sick.
— Emma Cline, The Girls
Those who master money are free to serve others still mastered by it.
— Orrin Woodward
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
— Warren Buffett
Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of currency, the value is gone.
— Richie Norton
Money cannot buy the moments of grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your strength is your wealth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Money is like a river. It flows where the conditions are conducive to its flow.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive.
— Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
You can either love money or live moment. It is better to live in the moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it.
— Philip K Dick
Wealth does not consist of having a lot of money or possessions, but to be content with little needs.
— Jan Jansen Easy Branches
If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.
— David Alejandro Fearnhead
I also need to honor myself for working so hard, and that means treating the money I earn with respect.
— Ashley Graham
There was something alienating about being on scholarship, a tense mixture of gratefulness and otherness. You're talented, the money said, and we want you here. Still, it had the twang of You were, are, and always will be different.
— Riley Redgate, Noteworthy
People can copy anything; your mode of dressing, the way you talk, walk, dance, sing, cry, but they will find it very hard to imitate the way you donate money.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The rule of money is it must be earned.
— Rand McGreal, Rule of Money: An Introduction to Market Economics
The money we slaved for, bought information that kept us all trapped inside a chamber of lies and running on a greed wheel.
— Gayendra Abeywardane, Crocodile Chamber
Everything has a price. The price, however, isn't always money.
— Ahmed Mostafa
Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you are working inwardly, Nature will help you. For the man who is working, Nature is sister of charity; she brings him what he needs for his work. If you need money for your work, even if you do nothing to get it, the money will come to you from all sides.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
Do not be weary to make money.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are just peasants with money.
— A.H. Septimius
Same Money or Nobody will save you.
— Asha Kanta Sharma
Lack of money is no poverty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Wisdom is the spine of a business, money is its oxygen, and God is its strength and life.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The creed of greed:Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.(IN BANKS WE TRUST)
— Anthony T. Hincks
When you give a present,you're giving with your heart.Never give thinking of money,or your gift will fall apart.
— Anthony T Hincks
Life is hard people go through things every day so if you go through things in your life just think about the people that have it worse the people that do things to make it in this unforgivable world the people that sell their body to make money to feed their children
— David Ramos
Money is only a means.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Business is no more about making money than the human body is about making blood. Yes you need to make the stuff, but only to serve your higher aims.
— Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
That's the funny thing about stealing money---it always seems to be the rich people who have the most of it.
— Ari Marmell, Lost Covenant
..each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government. Every Secretary of State is acutely aware that his tenure of office maybe very short, so he picks out a major contract for himself from the many available. It's the one way to ensure a pension for life if the government is changed overnight or the minister simply loses his job.
— Jeffrey Archer, A Quiver Full of Arrows
Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul,Pointing out the way to infamy and shame." - Creon
— Sophocles, Antigone
Why be greedy when you can have it all.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
We have every piece of data on 200 million people,” he said, ticking off his fingers. “We have their bank accounts. We know how much they make and how much they spend and where. We have their social media. We know what they talk about, who they influence and how much. We know exactly how important each and everyone one of them is.
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Money is never the cause of all evil, ignorance is!
— Harrish Sairaman
The amount of money you make ethically is directly proportionate to the value you add in others people’s life
— Harrish Sairaman
The thing about 'colour' is that it's not all about the money or the prestige, but it's about showing what life is all about. Without it...
— Anthony T. Hincks
Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts.
— Carrie Anne Noble, The Gold-Son
Chasing money to please society.
— Pallav Gautam
She'd stolen my car.She'd stolen my dog.She'd stolen all my money.But if she had only asked, I would have given her it all, because when I first met her, she'd stolen my heart.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Money is a means of exchange.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Money can only be used to buy man-made goods.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
Money should not be the motivator in your life, it will only make you slave. Stand for values and you will die in honor.
— Mayur Ramgir
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash.
— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Simple life is always good. Fortune should not be created on other's money.
— Ramesh Lohia
Sharply the menacing wind sweeps overThe bending poplars, newly bare,And the dark ribbons of the chimneysVeer downward; flicked by whips of air.Torn posters flutter; coldly soundThe boom of trams and the rattle of hooves,And the clerks who hurry to the stationLook, shuddering, over the eastern rooves,Thinking, each one, "Here comes the winter!"Please God I keep my job this year!"And bleakly, as the cold strikes throughTheir entrails like an icy spear,They think of rent, rates, season tickets,Insurance, coal, the skivvy's wages,Boots, school-bills and the next installmentUpon the two twin beds from Drage's.For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,We kneel before our rightful lord;The lord of all, the money-god,Who rules us blood and hand and brain,Who gives the roof that stops the wind,And, giving, takes away again;Who spies with jealous, watchful care,Our thoughts, our dreams, our secret ways,Who picks our words and cuts our clothes,And maps the pattern of our days;Who chills our anger, curbs our hope.And buys our lives and pays with toys,Who claims as tribute broken faith,Accepted insults, muted joys;Who binds with chains the poet's wit,The navvy's strength, the soldier's pride,And lays the sleek, estranging shieldBetween the lover and his bride.
— George Orwell
The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented in fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere. Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents. His bones ache with the days' work that earned it. He knows how much land it represents - how much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight. In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen or a lucky rise in exchange, it comes to be looked on as light.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life - Ralph Waldo Emerson (With Notes)(Biography)
You cannot see God until you notice people
— Sunday Adelaja
Real wealth is not the weight of coins
—  it is the net value of your honesty
People are preoccupied only with money. They are looking to see where they can get it from. Hey, why are you looking for it in a ‘cemetery’? This worldly life has become like a cemetery. There is no love to be seen in it. The way in which money comes to one is a natural thing. It is (by way of) scientific circumstantial evidences. Why do we have to run after it? If it were to free (liberate) us itself, then it would be very good, right?
— Dada Bhagwan
But, as Bruce Wayne will attest...you have to spend money to make money.
— Bruce Wayne
It’s time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.
— F.H. Buckley
It is difficult to create a budget for life when we all cash out the same. Corpses have no currency." -The Years Before My Suicide
— Amber Garibay
It is the best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.
— Gift Gugu Mona
I was thought of before I was born. I am more important than money. If money was more important than me I would not exist. There are days when I wake up I have no money.
— Simon Mashalla
Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?
— Robin Sacredfire
Would the world be better off without people or would people be better off without money?
— Anthony T. Hincks
I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written.
— M.V. Carey
The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch.
— Leigh Bardugoh
Some people are born to make a Point... And some to make money... No COMPARATIVE analogy exists
— Talees Rizvi
Most investors consider the consistent rise in share price as proxy for safety. Often not true!.
— A K asnani
No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
True success and satisfaction in stock investments comes from owning both your failures and your successes.
— A K asnani
Speculators always present opportunities for genuine investors to -- pick under-priced stocks, and- exit over-priced
— A K asnani
Capitalism has a way of letting people view the world through rose-coloured glasses.
— Rebecca McNutt, Hello, My Name is Grief: A Short Story About 9/11
They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.
— Douglas Wilson, Flags Out Front: A Contrarian's Daydream
Here is an equation worth remembering: Five dollars earned minus seven dollars spent = Unhappy Life." (Life Hacks, p.51)
— Jon Morrison, Life Hacks: Nine Ideas That Will Change How You Do Everything
Money Compounding is one concept that does not hit you unless your stars are aligned
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
I'm more interested in becoming a commercial writer, and unfortunately, commentary on my writing from a bunch of other unpublished writers is of little utility in that regard. Being a better writer is something of a moot point, since if you're not a commercial writer to some extent, very few people will know whether your writing is any good or not.
— John Scalzi
The price on money is life
— Omar Hickman
If there was ever a time that Silicon Valley believed it could revive the long-deferred dream of reinventing money, this was it. A virtual currency that rose above national borders fitted right in with an industry that saw itself destined to change the face of everyday life.
— Nathaniel Popper, Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
It takes brains not to make money,” Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem’s signature. “Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.
— Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He’s quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He’s a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine’s car. “Your fly’s unzipped,” Geraldine points out, disgusted. “Who gave you a license to sell hot dogs, buddy?
— Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer
Money isn't everything. It's the only thing.
— Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer
For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.
— Cecelia Ahern, Flawed
Don't just bargain for success. Pay the price!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life
— Sunday Adelaja
Wealth follows influence.
— Jelani Payne
We must persistently establish God’s truth and stand for it to the end
— Sunday Adelaja
In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you must be so disciplined so that you can go through these things and come out victorious
— Sunday Adelaja
Unfortunately, the main problem of the world isn't on money, as it might seem at first sight, but on the mind of those that either use it, create it, maintain it, capitalize on it, or simply, ignore it. What use would science have if people didn't have problems needing a solution? What use would art have if people didn't have a need to escape their reality? What use would reading have if there was no desire to aspire to? What use would dreams have if life was perfect? And so, I’m not saying that money is necessary. but that our mind is what makes it valuable. And once you understand this, you actually master it. The solution lays on the fundamental laws of duality. The more you disregard money, the more it becomes a fundamental part of your world. Those that love it, however, don't even need to touch it or worry about it. And how convenient that we tend to ask questions about the things we refuse to learn about.
— Robin Sacredfire
Most people think that money and love aren’t related topics. But allow me explain this to you in a realistic way. When someone criticizes you but doesn’t see your value, this person is trying to bargain your happiness. When someone doesn’t invest in a relationship, but instead complains about her needs and wants, this person is overpricing herself. When a woman invests more in her outer beautify than inner beauty, she is focusing on her brand, and not quality. When the cost of a relationship exceeds the quality of what you get, you are being cheated. And there’s no such thing as cost for quality, because very often the nicest people you find are also the easiest to hang out with, and the kindest. They make you feel like your life is easy despite any challenges along the way, and that you haven’t lost anything but instead gained a lot. When someone adds value to your life, well then, that person proves to be a great investment. And great investments are worth a lifetime. They require little to be maintained but give you plenty in return. You should never let go a good opportunity, in love and wealth. And if you’re smart enough to understand this, you can be in a fantastic relationship and wealthy at the same time. If you can’t, you probably undervalued yourself.
— Robin Sacredfire
The desire to be nice to everyone and please everyone and the inability to firmly say no is what destroys believers most of all
— Sunday Adelaja
We should not be careless toward the fulfillment of our calling
— Sunday Adelaja
When we fight with the truth and stand in it to the end, then God Himself comes and confirms His Word, His righteousness and His truth
— Sunday Adelaja
I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they do. The truly miserable, however, don't know how poor they are, and I want nothing from them.
— Robin Sacredfire
All things are possible not only to God but also to the man who truly and firmly believes in Him
— Sunday Adelaja
God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world
— Sunday Adelaja
Seeds of talents and abilities have been placed in us
— Sunday Adelaja
Seeds do not grow without soil
—  our soil and our favorable environment is the presence of God
To be a believer in Christ Jesus is more powerful than any nuclear weapon
— Sunday Adelaja
If we continually walk with God, if He lives in us and we in Him, then every mountain according to the Word of God will melt before us
— Sunday Adelaja
The first duty of any Christian is to know God and the wisdom of His Word to the utmost
— Sunday Adelaja
There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding
— Sunday Adelaja
Your old traditional way of thinking is your problem
— Sunday Adelaja
God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task
— Sunday Adelaja
Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God
— Sunday Adelaja
Always using the same methods is not God’s way
— Sunday Adelaja
God wants to create something new on this earth
—  something that nobody has ever known or seen until now
It is important to remember that good overcomes evil
— Sunday Adelaja
We stand and fight for God’s truth and with the truth we will win
— Sunday Adelaja
We must stand so firmly for the truth so that we do not back down because every movement away from righteousness and God’s truth is similar to death
— Sunday Adelaja
We should be unshakable and uncompromising while we stand for God’s truth
— Sunday Adelaja
As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked
— Sunday Adelaja
Those who become successful are those who have decided to ‘take the bull by the horns
— Sunday Adelaja
It is only necessary to believe and begin to move forward toward the set goals
— Sunday Adelaja
If Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, if the Holy Spirit lives in you, then God guarantees your success
— Sunday Adelaja
The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives
— Sunday Adelaja
A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to
— Sunday Adelaja
We, as children of God, have an advantage over the world
— Sunday Adelaja
We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence
— Sunday Adelaja
God wants to show the advantage of His kingdom to the world, but He will not do this without us
— Sunday Adelaja
Every Christian has the chance to become successful, if he will make the decision to fulfill God’s will in his life
— Sunday Adelaja
A successful person will never use the word ‘no’, ‘I cannot’ or ‘it is impossible
— Sunday Adelaja
You can do anything under one condition
—  you must continually abide in Jesus Christ
If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from above
— Sunday Adelaja
God has received us into His family, He is the possessor of everything
— Sunday Adelaja
God wants to take care of us, raise us up and direct us in life
— Sunday Adelaja
God wants to advise us and stretch out His Almighty hand of help towards us
— Sunday Adelaja
Many Christians have no understanding of God’s fatherhood
— Sunday Adelaja
We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well
— Sunday Adelaja
God should always be in the first place in our lives
— Sunday Adelaja
Learn to love God with all your heart
— Sunday Adelaja
The fact that you have a large sum of money in your wallet does not remove your responsibility from you before God to be involved in a ministry in the body of Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
If you are not willing to serve God in the abundance that He has given you, then you will have to serve your enemy in hunger
— Sunday Adelaja
It is easy to love God when you do not even have a cent in your pocket and you are totally dependent on Him
— Sunday Adelaja
Money makes a person significant and important , it has the ability to make us proud
— Sunday Adelaja
It causes us to focus our attention on ourselves and draws us away from God
— Sunday Adelaja
Always be in control, do not allow money to possess your heart which should belong to God
— Sunday Adelaja
If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us
— Sunday Adelaja
Love God so much that, when you are entrusted with much, nothing else will be able to control your heart
— Sunday Adelaja
The test of glory and wealth is the hardest to pass
— Sunday Adelaja
God is most important in everything
— Sunday Adelaja
Many things can be released into our lives in the spirit realm through a ministry
— Sunday Adelaja
God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity before giving prosperity to His children
— Sunday Adelaja
Christians should use their prosperity for the glory of the kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity
— Sunday Adelaja
Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to have bread (a symbol of prosperity ) you have to first learn how to plough the land
— Sunday Adelaja
If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest
— Sunday Adelaja
If you are established in the church and focused on Jesus, then you are still among the living
— Sunday Adelaja
If the devil succeeds in separating you and isolating you from other Christians, then he can destroy you
— Sunday Adelaja
A data bank holding all the information that is in this universe can be found in God
— Sunday Adelaja
The holiness of God makes Him the possessor of all earthly wealth, which belongs to Him forever
— Sunday Adelaja
We have to dedicate ourselves to a holy way of life, to justice, honesty and loyalty
— Sunday Adelaja
The path leading to stability is always opened to the sons of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block
— Sunday Adelaja
We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they contradict God’s principles
— Sunday Adelaja
Constant dedication brings constant prosperity
— Sunday Adelaja
Often we agree to shady but attractive propositions and as a result we have sorrow
— Sunday Adelaja
God always knows the most excellent path
— Sunday Adelaja
The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep
— Sunday Adelaja
We should reveal God to this world with our wealth
— Sunday Adelaja
We have to make holiness our creed
— Sunday Adelaja
No matter the amount of money a person may have , a dishonest way of life will cost him everything he has
— Sunday Adelaja
You will definitely reap whatever you have sown
— Sunday Adelaja
Never look at how others who live dishonestly become rich, look at God and His holiness
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s constant wealth is accessible to us, if we cultivate His holiness in our lives
— Sunday Adelaja
There are more temptations in business than in any other sphere of the society
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to be strong on the inside and have God’s character and qualities
— Sunday Adelaja
We should always live in holiness and reveal the holiness of God to the world
— Sunday Adelaja
We are the new generation that will be raised up and will remain on high
— Sunday Adelaja
The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father
— Sunday Adelaja
God is challenging us and each one of us has to decide to personally take up this challenge
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s goal is to establish His righteousness on this earth
— Sunday Adelaja
If the foundation of your house is righteousness then your wealth will not be like a cardboard house that collapses under a gentle blow of wind
— Sunday Adelaja
If a person cannot deal properly with what he has been given, God will never multiply what he has
— Sunday Adelaja
God wants us to do everything according to His plan
— Sunday Adelaja
God wants us to move persistently towards His goals
— Sunday Adelaja
God is the God of multiplication and a careless attitude toward the business of the kingdom bring regret to Him
— Sunday Adelaja
We should responsibly carry out the business that God has assigned for us to do
— Sunday Adelaja
It is very important how efficiently and wisely we manage and plan to use the blessings that God has already given to us
— Sunday Adelaja
We should be wise in how we manage the little and then God can trust us with much
— Sunday Adelaja
God wants to raise rich and successful Christians up whose prosperity will never end
— Sunday Adelaja
God will always respond to our responsible management of the riches we have received from Him with promotion and stability
— Sunday Adelaja
There are no limitations to the children of God who desire to establish God’s righteousness on this earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Your dedication to kingdom and His principles determines the level of your prosperity
— Sunday Adelaja
The level of your dedication plays a big role in having stability
— Sunday Adelaja
Everything on this earth belongs to God and therefore the more your dedication draws you closer to him, the more you will draw closer to what God owns
— Sunday Adelaja
The more intimate your relationship with God becomes the easier it will be for you to obey His leadings
— Sunday Adelaja
God always knows what your position should be at every given moment
— Sunday Adelaja
God knows what should be your priority and what should be beneficial for you
— Sunday Adelaja
It is the information we have that will determine who will hold a dominant position in this world
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s secrets are always revealed to us, the children of God
— Sunday Adelaja