Quotes About Community

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money.

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

What's a soup kitchen?

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

I'll invest my money in people.

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.

Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.