Money
Quotes - Having money isn't everything, not having it is
“If
money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting
me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve
and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of
separation?”
―
Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
“I
would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than
carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro
inside!”
―
C. JoyBell C.
“Nin
knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never
really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human
species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was
alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of
activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.”
―
Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
“Having
money isn't everything, not having it is.”
―
Kanye West
“Its
easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.”
―
Craig Ferguson
“I
can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money.
If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A
business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your
creative instincts.”
―
Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a
Fortune Doing Business My Way
“Money
is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your
trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”
―
Tim O'Reilly
“Pick
a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to
hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource
jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a
leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons.
Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability,
not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not
segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance,
not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy.
Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not
destruction. Truth, not lies.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Unfortunately
most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the
money one is too old to enjoy it.”
―
Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
“If
the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we
human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from
exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong.
Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.”
―
Niall Ferguson
“Getting
money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of
the business of life.”
―
Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“The
first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.”
―
Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
“Capitalist
ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of
belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude - at the expense of the
beliefs we exhibit and externalize in our behavior. So long as we believe (in
our hearts) that capitalism is bad, we are free to continue to participate in
capitalist exchange. According to Zizek, capitalism in general relies on this
structure of disavowal. We believe that money is only a meaningless token of no
intrinsic worth, yet we act as if it has a holy value. Moreover, this behavior
precisely depends upon the prior disavowal - we are able to fetishize money in
our actions only because we have already taken an ironic distance towards money
in our heads.”
―
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“We
must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our
worthiness as children of God.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Some
people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you
once you make it … or they think you have.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“People
can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become
addicted to drugs.”
―
Dennis Prager, Think a Second Time
“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.”
―
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
