Quotes About Money

How can I possibly explain that what I do with my time and what I do for money are completely different things?

The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape.

1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows. The question is then, How can one achieve the millionaire lifestyle of complete freedom without first having $1,000,000?

Money in a business is like gas in your car. You need to pay attention so you don't end up on the side of the road. But your trip is not a tour of gas stations.

Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally two very different things.

Cubrir los inconvenientes: «Cada una de estas [personas] está obsesionada con no perder dinero. Pero

Why Are You Investing, Anyway? For me, the goal of "investing" has always been simple: to allocate resources (e.g., money, time, energy) to improve quality of life.

Ahora sólo necesita saber cómo explotar su libertad y dar con las herramientas que le permitan vivir con su dinero finito una vida de posibilidades casi infinitas.

Cuanto más asociamos la experiencia con el valor del dinero, más creemos que el dinero es lo que necesitamos para vivir.

cuanto más asociamos el dinero con la vida, más nos convencemos de que somos demasiado pobres para comprar nuestra libertad.

De este modo, acabamos pasando (tal como lo expresó Thoreau) «la mejor parte de la vida ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad discutible en la parte menos valiosa de ella».

ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad discutible en la parte menos valiosa de ella».

El objetivo es divertirse y ganar dinero.

If you've got enough money to solve the problem, you don't have the problem." In

Busy yourself with the routine of the money wheel, pretend it's the fix-all, and you artfully create a constant distraction that prevents you from seeing just how pointless it is. Deep down, you know it's all an illusion, but with everyone participating in the same game of make-believe, it's easy to forget.

Large sums of money create a powerful reality-distortion field,

Granting that you have more money than others, and that you don't deserve such wealth—but stopping there—allows you to settle the score by paying your taxes and advocating more redistribution. This reductive attitude toward inequality has the added comfort of justifying nasty judgments about the other side.

In retrospect, these events are discouraging: too many scientists seem to have been in the service of money and power. Too many in the media saw it as their duty to be "neutral" by uncritically reporting every theory, rather than investigating who sponsored them and whether they were backed by solid evidence. Too many government officials seem to have been willing to sacrifice poor fisherfolk on the altar of high growth.

Look at your relationship to money. What does it tell you about your relationship to God?

To what degree is the kingdom of God driving your life? Our money is an intensely personal part of our lives, and only an intensely personal relationship with the Redeemer can loosen our grasp on other things.

Do you see how money and time reveal your heart in relation to God and others? How you use time and money in your human relationships says much about your relationship with God.

He took from his coat pocket a handful of wadded-up cash, as if children had paid him directly with their sweaty clutches of dollar bills.

The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more free speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.