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“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”
“On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being a Samana in hi...”
“I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way c...”
“The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven Berties age ...”
“There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.”
“People have the false habit of putting an artificial gap between the spiritual and the financial. We cannot accept this habit because life is an integral whole which we should understand deeply.”
“When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)”
“A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.”
“The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.”
“It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.”
“Brent Kessel combines some of the most sophisticated knowledge of financial planning and investment strategies with a sincere and grounded practice in the meditation arts. He has written the deepes...”
“Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.”
“To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.”
“But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dre...”
“But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of sc...”
“It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didnt, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”
“The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it.”
“Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.”
“When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.”
“Money is just one of the forces that blind us to information and issues which we could pay attention to - but don't. It exacerbates and often rewards all the other drivers of willful blindness; our...”
