Money
Quotes - While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done
“Get
to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it.
You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that
shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about
his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.”
―
Robert J. McCracken
“Those
who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to
their needs, live contented with few things.”
―
Spinoza
“For
after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of
education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind,
money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not
righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.”
―
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“He
wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example,
small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram
conductors. Did they know that they were only puppets dancing when money pulled
the strings? You bet they didn’t. And if they did, what would they care? They
were too busy being born, being married, begetting, working, dying. It mightn’t
be a bad thing, if you could manage it, to feel yourself one of them, one of
the ruck of men. Our civilization is founded on greed and fear, but in the
lives of common men the greed and fear are mysteriously transmuted into
something nobler. The lower-middle-class people in there, behind their lace curtains,
with their children and their scraps of furniture and their aspidistras — they
lived by the money-code, sure enough, and yet they contrived to keep their
decency. The money-code as they interpreted it was not merely cynical and
hoggish. They had their standards, their inviolable points of honour. They
‘kept themselves respectable’— kept the aspidistra flying. Besides, they were
alive. They were bound up in the bundle of life. They begot children, which is
what the saints and the soul-savers never by any chance do.
The
aspidistra is the tree of life, he thought suddenly.”
―
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“I'm
living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
―
Saki, The Unbearable Bassington
“America's
abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the
productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the
making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for
America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages,
and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific
discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving
forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.”
―
Ayn Rand
“While
others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done.”
―
Nathan W. Morris
“Where
I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices.
When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, "I can't afford it,"
and started saying, "That's not where I want to spend that amount of
money.”
―
Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self
“Money
won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to
study the problem.”
―
Bill Vaughan
“The
Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He
would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.”
―
Wodehouse
“Jews
believe that people are creators, not consumers. The role of humans is to
improve and perfect God's creations through work, creation, and innovation.”
―
H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
“The
bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are
starting to catch on to the scam.
Real
wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of
thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral.
But
if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then
something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.”
―
Chris Martenson
“You
think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things
it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.”
―
Ann Herendeen, Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander
“Having
money is a way of being free of money”
―
Albert Camus
“Jews
are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately
25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish.”
―
H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
“While
many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and
downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift
from God.”
―
H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
