Helpful quotes on Money
Many people say that you shouldn’t seek, earn or put money up there, I disagree, for many of our unhappiness comes with having the lack of resources, not being able to do things what we want to do, because of obstacles.
When we turn to scripture, we see that money is a much needed management, and to knowledgeable of how to use it is a great asset to weaving through our priorities…
King solomon:
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Psalms 15:5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Leviticus 27:31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
Leviticus 27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
Psalms 112:3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Proverbs 8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
So we see from scripture that money needs to be apart of your source of joy, having it, managing it, gaining it and maintaining it, which leads to your prosperity. As we can learn from highly successful people of today…..
Do not spend what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
-Warren Buffett
- Frugality includes all the other virtues. –Cicero
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. –Thomas Edison
- Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. Zig Ziglar.
- Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
- Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.-Barack Obama
- Money may be spent but never squandered.-Li Ka Shing
- When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. -Oscar Wilde
- It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. -Robert T. Kiyosaki
- I believe the power to make money is a gift of God. -John D.
Proverbs 14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Proverbs 14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
You reap what you sow, if you do not sow (work) you do not reap (gain money and wealth).
Law of Moses, work 6 days a week, and rest on the sabbath, pretty damn good rhythm, don’t get it mixed up, don’t rest for 6 days and work one, or maybe you won’t have what you want and thence need.
@Simpleman123 on investing:
"The best time to buy is when blood is running in the streets." - J. P. Morgan
"Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett
@slowdecline48
Warren buffet is a heck of a guy to learn from.
Mr Stocks and Credit man. I think that’s a route we should all be on. Banks the money sits, stocks the money grows, I guess it’s a way of looking at the parables of the talents from Jesus who teaches us never to quander our money and make your money work for you, not you work for your money.
Thats like putting seeds in a jar, the seeds will just sit there, and maybe eventually die. While if you put your seeds in a row of soil, it will increase abundantly. It’s amazing these fundamentals have been around for so long, yet we barely grasp the action to do it.
Must get a string of credit cards and outs some money into stocks as well. Gots to.
Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.
“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.”
Warren Buffett
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
Erich Fromm
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
Jim Rohn
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
Daniel Kahneman
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar
“I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”
Robert Bosch
“Making money is a common sense. It’s not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Albert Camus
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David
We can see that having money is a necessity, it’s not how much you have or how little, it’s how you use the ones you have.
Having a career based fundamental is greater than the money itself, to making your vocation your vacation is the best way to make money, like the saying goes, if you find something you love doing, it’s not work.
Japanese have this principle as Ikigai…
This confounds with who you are or who you want to be, ikigai being purpose, you have to have a job/career, you have to get paid well for it, you have to be good at it, it also has to be something others need.
A cycle, a contra flow, that must be pegged in with ethics, principles and disciplines. Community unison, social construct and stability. A give and take scenario where everyone benefits.
This is the motto parable from the prophets like solomon who say he who waters, he himself will be watered, and to Jesus who said the more you give the more you receive.
1. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” (John Stuart Mills)
. “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” (Calvin Coolidge)
3. “He who will not economize will have to agonize.” (Confucius)
4. “Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.” (Benjamin Franklin)
PEOPLE SAY MONEY CAN’T BUY HAPPINESS. POVERTY SURE AIN’T GOING TO HELP EITHER!
- leo rosten
You Must Learn to Save First and Spend Afterwards.
– John Poole
A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned.
– Benjamin Franklin
Never Spend Your Money Before You Have It.
– Thomas Jefferson
The Only Way to Learn on a $0 Budget Is to Talk to People.
– Drew Houston
If You Buy Things You Do Not Need; Soon You Will Have to Sell Things You Need.
– Warren Buffett
Money talks and bullshit walks. Thats how it goes.
Discipline, use it or lose it, the more you give away, the more you get in return. Epic credit endeavor.
Don’t have friends that say they are behind you, have friends that are willing to stand beside you.
It’s worth the struggle, worth the pain, gotta live. Not just not die.
Respect and integrity.
Try again, and again, and again, until you get it, I am not here to be right, I am here to get it right.
Proverbs 11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
- Career
- Credit
- Stocks
Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Wanna stay away from poverty, have wise counsel.
Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
Proverb 13
Psalms 66:12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Proverbs 18:11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
Proverbs 24:4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
A wise man has oil and riches , a foolish man has folly and foolishness.
Proverbs.
