Quotes About Money

A 2015 US Federal Reserve Board report found that 47 percent of Americans would have to borrow money or sell something to cover a $400 emergency expense.

We hit a fulfillment ceiling and never recognized that the formula of money = fulfillment not only had stopped working but had started to work against us. No matter how much we bought, the fulfillment curve kept heading down.

Find out how much money you have earned in your lifetime—the sum total of your gross income, from the first penny you ever earned to your most

The push for full employment, along with the growth of advertising, has created a populace increasingly oriented toward work and toward earning more money in order to consume more resources.

You want more money so that you can have more freedom to be yourself without worrying about the money. Likewise, you don't want more money to boost your self-esteem. You want more money as an expression of your self-esteem, of valuing your life energy.

Getting Away As your handling of money gets clearer and your life becomes more satisfying, you will have less of a need to "vacate." Consider

Along with racism and sexism, our society has a hidden hierarchy based on what you do for money.

is a way to approach life so that when asked, "Your money or your life?" you say, "I'll take both, thank you.

By late 2017, consumer debt had topped $3.7 trillion, more than double the total at the end of 2000. That's more than $11,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country.

Who Is This Book For? This program works for anyone who earns or spends money—not because anyone can be rich, but because everyone can discover for themselves how much is enough . . . and have that. It helps you transform your relationship with money—and we all have one. In fact, "enough" is the radical promise of Your Money or Your Life.

In fact, we now meet most of our needs, wants, and desires through money. We buy everything from hope to happiness. We no longer live life. We consume it.

Money is something you trade your life energy for. You sell your time for money. It doesn't matter that Ned over there sells his time for a hundred dollars and you sell yours for twenty dollars an hour. Ned's money is irrelevant to you. The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world

Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.

put your life in service to your values rather than putting your time in service to money.

training away the money-wasting habits

Did you ever think about that?" Joe would ask. "That you have a relationship with money?" He'd get on his knees, begging money to love him. He'd exhibit mock terror, shrinking from the evil hundred-dollar bill. He'd hold it out like a carrot and run around after it, reaching but never grasping it. "This is what your relationship with money looks like! Think about it. If you were money, would you hang out with you?

But hey, what's another $20,000 when I have a full-time job?

The ancient Greeks lived more than 2,500 years ago and were responsible for many of the things you take for granted today, such as democracy, freedom of speech, theater, money, the Olympic Games, and crazy politicians.

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

If there is one fatal flaw in this business, it is allowing isolated information to drive trading or investing decisions-committing money without understanding all the risks. And there is only one way to understand all the risks: through systematic knowledge.

How sick I am of thinking about money all the time. It's like and hideous disease destroying energy...contentment...joy... (...) It's depressing how money is always at the beginning and end of things.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.