Money
Quotes - Money follows art
“What
he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been
elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt
religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have
no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly
significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two
commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were-
'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and
underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' It was about this time that he came
across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving
carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra
became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England!
It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There
will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.”
―
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“Money
follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember
while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to
spend it.”
―
Candace Bushnell, One Fifth Avenue
“The
more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.”
―
Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone -
Especially Ourselves
“You
can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what
kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love”
―
Taylor Caldwell
“The
ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.”
―
Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
“Money
is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give
our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that
cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to
give.”
―
Steve Goodier
“It
is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in
a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.”
―
Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
“Balancing
your money is the key to having enough.”
―
Elizabeth Warren Amelia Warren Tyagin
“People
who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound
of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the
People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible
thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar
bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the
bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond
lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional
20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays
nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our
Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay,
but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency
issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It
is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth,
must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who
control the fictitious value of gold.”
―
Thomas A. Edison
“Waste
your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a
part of your life.”
―
Michael LeBoeuf
“Making
money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth
devoting your life to”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Someone
told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’
but stress.”
―
Mac Miller
“Both
political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s
New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.”
The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not
have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.
The
fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the
periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum
wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with
the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated
(in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20
per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.”
―
Noam Chomsky
“Money
has only a different value in the eyes of each.”
―
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“After
having everything, a rich man seeks applause and reverence, for there is guilt
in his mind. The guilt of having everything in this world.”
―
Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“For
Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido.
And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All are horribly
wrong. More than anything, man seeks meaning in his life. And in that meaning,
he seeks superiority over others.”
―
Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“Too
much is never too much, and just enough is enough.”
―
Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“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.”
―
Paul Auster, Moon Palace
“Measure
your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that
you're giving away.”
―
Debasish Mridha
