Money Quotes

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.

~ John Piper

God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

~ Randy Alcorn

While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.

~ H.w. Charles

Jews believe that people are creators, not consumers. The role of humans is to improve and perfect God's creations through work, creation, and innovation.

~ H.w. Charles

Religious Jews believe that all things come from God, as God owns everything. The Tanakh says, “The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up” (NLT, 1 Samuel 2:7). “The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it” (NIV, Proverbs 10:22).

~ H.w. Charles

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

~ H.w. Charles

Although some popular religious texts such as the New Testament, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, or Tibetan Book of the Dead contain interesting insights and stories, it is the Jewish religious texts such as the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) that contain valuable information on acquiring wealth.

~ H.w. Charles

Many people have got caught up in the belief known as the “Law of Attraction.” They believe that by their thoughts, affirmations, and other “attraction” exercises they will become wealthy. However, the Tanakh wisely says, “In all work there is profit, but mere talk produces only poverty.” (CJB, Proverbs 14:23). Only through work it is possible to produce results that create wealth and simply talking about wealth will not produce any results. The idea that wealth can come through thoughts or affirmations is a fantasy. “A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty” (CJB, Proverbs 28:19).

~ H.w. Charles

The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Perseverance means continuous persistence in a course of action, a purpose, in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.

~ H.w. Charles

Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.

~ H.w. Charles

Money as the sole ambition has no value.

~ Habeeb Akande

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.

~ H.w. Charles

Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, “The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want” (CJB, Proverbs 21:5).

~ H.w. Charles

The Talmud says that “blessed is He who has created all these to serve me.” German politician Julius Streicher said, “It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

~ H.w. Charles

CODE:Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17)DECODED:Blessed is He that discerneth secrets.Talmud (Berakoth 58a)

~ H.w. Charles

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

~ Alain De Botton

How arrogant you areTo think your wretched Self so singular!The disappointments of this world will dieIn less time than the blinking of an eye,And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth;What empty foolishness it is to careFor what must one day be dispersed to air!

~ فرید الدین عطار

If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

~ Steven J. Carroll

[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection, in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.

~ James A. Michener

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America, being a millionaire is not one of them.

~ Jerzy Kosiński

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,and brings in perennial interest.

~ Frederick Soddy

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.

~ Thomas Love Peacock

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

~ E.l. Doctorow

Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.

~ Sara Sheridan

Happiness is in all of us and it comes from progress. The root cause of a multiplier effect or a destroyer effect lies inside of us. The multiplication of the happiness in us on a daily basis makes us unique and powerful and gives us the reason for our existence. --Bimal Shah.

~ Bimal Shah

When you are able to know the right thing, you are intelligent. But when you choose that right thing to do, you are wise. This means people can get money, education, marriage, and good health and not get wisdom. Wisdom is the number one gift for a Godly success.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal.

~ Sunday Adelaja

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

~ Criss Jami

The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...

~ Garrett Mccoy

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

~ Stephen Richards

Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.

~ Stephen Richards

If you are going to be a doubter, I don't need your negative energy.

~ Stephen Richards

Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens and see how the brightest star always stands apart from those lesser shining stars.

~ Stephen Richards

Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of wealth, have it. Those who speak most of joy, have it. The opposite also holds true. So which would you rather have?

~ Stephen Richards

By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are.

~ Stephen Richards

You have two voices, one that only you hear, and another that you speak out loud with, so others hear you. Regardless of what you actually say with your mouth, what matters is what your inner voice says, for this is the one you listen to the most.

~ Stephen Richards

To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.

~ Stephen Richards