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Quotes About Resources

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
~ Craig Reucassel
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations.
~ Tim O'Reilly
Wow. Imagine what God could have done if he'd had money.
~ Roger Miller
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
~ John Ruskin
Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.
~ David Petraeus
Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.
~ Kevin O'Leary
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
~ Sue Townsend
owning capital is not a productive activity.
~ Joan Robinson
We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.
~ Michael Huffington
Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
~ J. Paul Getty
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
~ Henry Ford
Riches are for spending.
~ Francis Bacon
If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.
~ Guy R. McPherson
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
~ Jack Nicholson
Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?
~ Shekhar Kapur
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.
~ David Korten
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
~ Lauryn Hill
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
~ John Piper
The sinews of war are infinite money.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
~ Leland Stanford
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
~ Chogyam Trungpa