Money has an attraction for some people, but nobody can wear two pairs of shoes at one time. Charles Feeney - Irish-American businessman, co-founded the DFS Duty Free Shops chain and General Atlantic Partners (1931-2023), Quotations book 2010
It"s never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love. attributed to Judith Jamison - American dancer and choreographer (b. 1943), Quotations book 2010
Give naught, get same. Give much, get same. attributed to Malcolm S. Forbes - American publisher, Forbes Magazine (1919-1990), Quotations book 2010
A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. The Bible, Proverbs 15,13 (NIV) - Quotations book 2010
Saddleback doesn"t do fundraising. For us, it"s all about faithraising. Why? Because we believe GOD is primarily interested in growing our faith, not getting our money. We also believe that if the first happens, the second will naturally occur. Forrest Reinhard - pastor of the Saddleback Community Church, Lake Forest, California (b. 1958), Quotations book 2010
Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. The Bible, Jeremiah 6,16 (NIV) - Quotations book 2010
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. attributed to Billy Graham - born William Franklin Graham jr., American evangelist (1918-2018), Quotations book 2010
Keep things simple and take them seriously - simplicity is the end result of long hard work, not the starting point. realization - Quotations book 2010
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess. Dr. John W. Stott - British pastor and author (1921-2011), Quotations book 2010
Property is the fruit of labor - property is desirable - it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Abraham Lincoln - American politician, 1861-65 16th president (1809-1865), from a speech at the New York Workingmen"s Democratic Republican Association, after they appointed him...
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. William Arthur Ward - American writer (1921-1994), Quotations book 2010
Net profit is an opinion. Cash is a fact. Whitney R. Tilson - American hedge fonds manager (b. 1966), Quotations book 2010
A businessman once gave me some good advice. "You will always make mistakes, but it is possible to go through life making mistakes and they will do your business little or no harm. This is because the trick is to spot the mistake early and deal with it." Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft - British entrepreneur and politician of the "Conservative Party" (*1946), from his autobiography...
All geniusses are leeches, so to speak. They feed from the same source - the blood of life ... We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there. Henry Miller - American writer and painter (1891-1980), from "Sexus"...
Live your life, as if you are gonna die. attributed to William Shatner - Canadian actor (b. 1931)
Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to the truth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poet (1807-1882), from "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (1858)
A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore - American actor (1882-1942), as quoted in the biography "Good Night, Sweet Prince: The Life and Times of John Barrymore" by Gene Fowler (1949)
If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assenbly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself. Charles Haddon Spurgeon - English baptist pastor (1834-1892), from "Additions to the Church", Predigt 1167 (1874)
Resolve and thou art free. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poet (1807-1882), from "The Masque of Pandora", part VI "In the Garden" (1875)