Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. — Sophocles
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg
A good that assumes the role of a widely accepted medium of exchange is called money. — Saifedean Ammous
Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. — Danny Devito
Money is merely a reward for solving problems. — Mike Murdock
Money is an information system for labor allocation. — Elon Musk
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly. — A. G. Gaston
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities. — Karl Marx
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. — Karl Marx
What is Money? will be regarded as the defining question of our time in history. — Robert Breedlove
Gold is money. Everything else is credit. — J. P. Morgan
Short Money Contribution Quotes
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history. — Karl Marx
Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. — P. T. Barnum
Money teaches man a language, clothes teach the way. — Turkish Proverbs
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem. — Richard J. Needham
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin
Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays. — Colin Chapman
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. — W. Somerset Maugham
Money only spends once, knowledge monetizes forever. — Tom Bilyeu
Money. It's a good servant but a bad master. — Gretchen Rubin
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Money And Value Quotes
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki
Based on the foregoing analysis, the real advantage of bitcoin lies in it being a reliable long-term store of value, and a sovereign form of money that allows individuals to conduct permissionless transactions. — Saifedean Ammous
You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.
We pay for every lesson with either time or money. And we use the currency we value least. — Alex Hormozi
The only way that you can make the most money is to provide an exceptional valued service and charge a ton of money for it. — Alex Hormozi
What is money? A store of value. A medium of exchange. A unit of account. And a system of control. That fourth property isn’t usually listed! Yet it’s all important. Digital fiat can be frozen, but Bitcoin can’t. It frees you from their system of control. — Balaji Srinivasan
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it. — Chamath Palihapitiya
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. — Tony Robbins
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed. — Aga Khan IV
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life. — Dan Buettner
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements. — Frederick Herzberg
I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. — Muhammad Yunus
Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen? — Lottie Moon
Money can't buy manners.
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. — Robert Menzies
When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think! — Slavoj Žižek
If you don't get serious about your money, you will never have serious money...
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world. — Anita Roddick
Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication. — John Hope Bryant
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest. — Thomas A. Edison
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them. — Robert Menzies
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. — Mitch Daniels
Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from. — Bernie Sanders
That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson
As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue. — David Korten
Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. — Muhammad Yunus
Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it — Tony Blair
By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy. — T. Harv Eker
The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose. — Ed Benguiat
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution. — Richard J. Codey
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America. — Henry Rollins
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution. — Richard Codey
We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line. — Jerry Greenfield
My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them. Even if you have no money or time, per se, you can find ways to contribute on any level: sharing shelter animals on social media, donating old blankets or towels to a local shelter, starting a petition online for an animal cause. — Alison Eastwood
In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap. — Phyllis Schlafly
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society. — Cal Thomas
What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing. — Matt Taibbi
The only way people can repay the debt is by cutting their living standards very drastically. It means agreeing to shift their pension plans from defined benefit plans - when you know what you're going to get - into just "defined contribution plans," where you put money in, like into a roach motel, and you don't know what's coming out. — Michael Hudson
I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema. — Terence Lewis
If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money. — Tony Hsieh
The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but a sign of the willingness of mostly married men to lose sleep to support the family as their wife loses sleep to feed the child. A willingness to do the uncomfortable shifts is one reason married men earn more than twice what never-married men earn. Men's contribution, made at night, need not be lost in the dark. — Warren Farrell
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates. — P. J. O'Rourke
Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear. — Robert Shea
I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute. — David Bowie
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous. But when you add on our private contributions - see, our tax system encourages private citizens to donate to organisations that, for example, help the folks in Africa. And when you take the combined effort of US taxpayers' money plus US citizens' donations, we're very generous. And we'll do more. — George W. Bush
Today's national income statistics make it appear that Goldman Sachs is productive. As if Donald Trump plays a productive role. The aim is to make it appear that people who take money from the rest of the economy without working are productive, despite not really providing any service that actually contributes to GDP and economic growth. — Michael Hudson
I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent. — Freida Pinto
Trump Foundation, small foundation. People contribute, I contribute. The money goes 100 percent - 100 percent goes to different charities, including a lot of military. I don't get anything. I don't buy boats. I don't buy planes. — Donald Trump
Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy. — Hillary Clinton
To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity. — John Assaraf
If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card. — Suze Orman
didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn't really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up. — Josh Earnest
To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobody has money, people are unemployed, and the machines are harnessed by the lucky guys who Facebook or Google and we're supposed to be happy just to contribute content to their site. — Astra Taylor
All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us. — John McCain
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy. — John Ralston Saul
Liberalism's key principle is to redistribute wealth from the haves to the have nots. That takes money from the entities with the greatest potential to improve society (for example, corporations that create jobs, invent life-saving medicines, etc.) and redistributes it to the people, whom on average, will never contribute more to society than to hold a menial job. — Marty Nemko
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