Quotes About Money

Many despise economy, confounding it with stinginess and narrowness. But economy is consistent with the broadest liberality. Indeed, without economy, there can be no true liberality. We are to save, that we may give.

Some think that if they give money to this work, it is all they are required to do; but this is an error. Donations of money cannot take the place of personal ministry. It is right to give our means, and many more should do this; but according to their strength and opportunities, personal service is required of all.

The love of money is the root of all evil. It blinds the vision and prevents people from discerning their obligations to God or to their neighbors.—

With the money that we had earned at our trade, my sister and I provided ourselves with clothes. We would hand our money to mother, saying, "Buy so that, after we have paid for our clothing, there will be something left to give for missionary work." And she would do this, thus encouraging in us a missionary spirit.

Los duelos sólo son a muerte cuando lo que hay en juego es una de estas dos cosas: poder o dinero. —¿Qué hay del honor? —¿Qué se puede comprar con el honor? —preguntó cínicamente la duquesa.

So what about that key?" I asked. "I knew you'd be asking me about it sooner or later." He pulled the cord out from underneath his shirt and dangled the key in front of me. "What do you want for it?" I sneered. "Five dollars?" "I don't want money," he said with a wicked grin. "What does it go to?" "A kiss will unlock more than this key will," he whispered in my ear.

Yet it seems that the more the Communists persecuted the church in China, the more it exploded in growth and power—again, without Western missionaries, Western money, Western technology, or Western guidance.

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.

He'd racketed around the world, collecting pirate's booty and investing it. Rather surprisingly, money made money.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

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Tout Occidental tourmenté fait penser à un héros dostoïevskien qui aurait un compte en banque.

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Commerce is like war; its result is patent. Do you make money or do you not make it? There is as little appeal from figures as from battle.

Our Government cannot buy for minor clerks the best ability of the nation in the cheap currency of pure honour, and no Government is rich enough to buy very much of it in money.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

In his prime the Hollywood screenwriter was one of the tragic figures of our age, evoking the special anguish that arises from feeling sorry for oneself while making large amounts of money.

The modern god,--the only god in whom faith is preserved,--money, is here, in all its power, manifested in a single countenance.

What frightful tableaux might present themselves, if one could paint the ideas found in the souls of those who surround the deathbeds? And money is always the mobilizer of the intrigues elaborated, the plans formulated, the conspiracies woven!

As time passed, I began to sense that the sleepiness I'd felt—sleepiness so fierce it was almost amusing—was gradually, ever so gradually, draining from my body. My feet were swollen, my room got all messy, dark pockets formed under my eyes. I didn't particularly want the money, the work was pointless, and so it was extremely difficult.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.