Quotes About Priorities

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

Money isn't everything, but happiness is

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.

When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

Money isn't everything, Mortimer.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.