Money Quotes - Page 58

People who desire to acquire success need to have knowledge

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

If you want to be successful, begin to work zealously and persistently

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.

It is only when you pay attention to ordinary people that you convince God that you are really serving Him

There are too many stars in the sky and none of them is overshadowing the other. Don't let anybody be a threat to your growth.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

To make money buy some good stock hold it until it goes up and then sell it. If it doesn't go up don't buy it.

If you have made mistakes in life there’s always another chance with Cosmic Ordering.

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.

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.

Money, food, and sex are overrated. They become attachments that enslave the untrained mind. Freedom has no cravings.” – Kevin W. Reese

The oldest and most popular instrument of etatistic monetary policy is the official fixing of maximum prices. High prices, thinks the etatist, are not a consequence of an increase in the quantity of money, but a consequence of reprehensible activity on the part of 'bulls' and 'profiteers'; it will suffice to suppress their machinations in order to ensure the cessation of the rise of prices. Thus it is made a punishable offence to demand, or even to pay, 'excessive' prices.

We, as children of God, have an advantage over the world

A data bank holding all the information that is in this universe can be found in God

Rich people don’t work for money, but work passionately until the end of their lives

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

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.

The world system is employment

You get answers and solutions to your problems when you begin to notice God

The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power.

True service is when you serve others without expecting anything in return

They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.

Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.

I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places do -- draw in people with no money. An apartment of my own was unthinkable at that time of my life, and even if I'd found an affordable one it wouldn't have satisfied my fundamental need to live in a communal past, or what I imagined the past to be like: a world full of antiques.

There is more to life than living to earn money.

We have to consciously monitor and maximize our time effectively and efficiently

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

If the devil succeeds in separating you and isolating you from other Christians, then he can destroy you

Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

Living without regrets is maximizing time

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

I read once that you need two things to be happy. Any two of health, money and love. You can cover the absence of one with the other two. I drew comfort from this idea while I was fully bodied, employed, and unloved. It made me feel I wasn't missing much. But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all. I had a girl in a hospital bed who liked me and I didn't know where that might go but I could tell it was more important than low blood pressure. It mattered more than a new car. With Lola in the same building, I walked with a spring in my step. That was true literally. But I mean I was happy, happy on an axis I had previously known about only in theory. I was glad to be alive.

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

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

Your race is your diminishing life

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

(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.

A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.

It is impossible to say how far the present value of money depends on its monetary employment and how far on its industrial employment. When the institution of money was first established, the industrial basis of the value of the precious metals may have preponderated; but with progress in the monetary organization of economic life the monetary employment has become more and more important. It is certain that nowadays the value of gold is largely supported by its monetary employment, and that its demonetization would affect its price in an overwhelming fashion.

All that the State need do, and can do, in order to preserve the monetary system undisturbed, is to refrain from such intervention. That is the essence of the monetary theory of the classical economists and their immediate successors, the Currency School. It is possible to refine and amplify this doctrine with the aid of the modern subjective theory; but it is impossible to overthrow it, and impossible to put anything else in its place. Those who are able to forget it only show that they are unable to think as economists.

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.

You have to be competitive to be relevant

God’s purpose for our lives is our calling

Our goal as believers is to teach people to observe the principles of God

Work is God’s great investment in you

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?

When you understand that everything you buy is purchased with a portion of your life, it should make you more careful with the use of money.

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.

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.

Having less worries is what allows me to talk to beggars in the street or tell jokes at waitresses and try to make them smile. I couldn't do that before, when I had a job and was always worried about money.