Money Quotes - Page 11

I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do.

All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.

Never see yourself as a disappointment or failure just because you were fired

When you can prove your love for God by your service and attitude to others, your service has started

The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell the Old Masters, set up a trust, buy your favorite brewery. But that's strictly it. You're limited by honesty on one hand and law - that hobble of sanity - on the other.

Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor."Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. "Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.

Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.

All products come from the worth of time

He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.

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.

Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!

Wealth follows influence.

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.

Local differences in the prices of commodities whose natures are technologically identical are to be explained on the one hand by differences in the cost of preparing them for consumption (expenses of transport, cost of retailing etc.) and on the other hand by the physical and legal obstacles that restrict the mobility of commodities and human beings.

For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich—the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising—and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana’s: “Money is the petrol of life.

Productivity is the essence of life

You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.

Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.

Money can't buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.

The best way to assess yourself is to base the assessment on the product you produce daily

Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily

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.

Money can only used to buy man-made goods.

Living in active consciousness is being in the “here and now

Every period in history has its own peculiarities

Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.

...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

As I mentioned earlier, women get mixed messages in childhood: You can do anything you want... but it wouldn't hurt to find someone who will take good care of you.

Money is only a problem to those that aren't willing to develop a higher conscience about how to master it.

To be forced to endure something because you have no money to counter it ; this fact is totally unfair and I can't, personally, tolerate it.

People may do crazy things for love, but they will also do amazing things for money.

Everything good you see is a product of time well spent

A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my -- dealer -- here tells me that in fact a picture is worth only what someone will give for it. How much money do you have?"Julia took out her purse and counted. "Four francs and twenty sous," she said, looking up at him sadly."Is that all the money you have in the world?"She nodded."Then four francs and twenty sous it is.

Everything in existence has a purpose

You have to discover your area of talent to be effective

Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God

The State does not govern the market; in the market in which products are exchanged it may quite possibly be a powerful party, but nevertheless it is only one party of many, nothing more than that. All its attempts to transform the exchange-ratios between economic goods that are determined in the market can only be undertaken with the instruments of the market.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

You must add value to yourself to be relevant

To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs

We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn’t everything.

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.

I have a repository of knowledge, but I have no money, it means I have no respect.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.

Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid?

You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.