Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ”

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ”

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money. ”

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger. ”

With money, who needs friends? ”

I've been blessed to make pretty good money over the years. ”

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. ”

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. ”

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. ”

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. ”