“But why in the world do we need money, if all we ever do is keep working?” – Arkady Strugatsky When you know what your priorities are, it’s much easier to live your best life. People who make the conscious decision to throw themselves into their work have the resolve and the discipline to do […]
“Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget.” – Leslie Tayne Making money is actually not a super hard thing to do, despite how it may seem. There are some hard and fast rules: you have to keep the money you have. You should get rid of costly and unnecessary expenses where you […]
“If time is money, how much is a lifetime?” – Ljupka Cvetanova Units of measurement count for a lot in this life, but not always accurately. An hour of your time can be, depending on the going rate, worth $75. Two, $150. That’s the length of your kid’s soccer game, maybe; longer than a hospital […]
“You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.” – Bernie Sanders The full quote is as follows: “America now has a situation where the CEOs of large corporations make over 360 times more than the average American worker. In many other countries, everybody wants to be rich, but there is […]
“Money is like fire. It is only good when there’s just the right amount of it, when it’s properly contained and under your control.” – Vera Nazarian Like everything else, there is sense in keeping money in moderation. Too much, then the margin of error widens and people find themselves in all sorts of trouble […]
“You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement.” – Jude Watson Here are achievements worth a certain amount of pride: Inventing a new technology that helps people, in any measure. Winning an award that you worked hard for. Learning a new skill that makes you happy or fulfills a certain longing […]
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” – George Best George Best lived his life in extremes: one of the most promising soccer players to come out of Britain, he was Manchester United’s top goal-scorer for five consecutive years. Off the field, he lived large, […]
“The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.” – James Carlos Blake Life is just borrowed time, so what would you rather do with it? Your home is temporary, what are you filling it with? If a human being can live through this life and leave a mark on one […]
“The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana People who have grown up without much money, who come into it later in their life, often look back to their youth as a simpler time, wherein happiness could be easily achieved even […]
“Having money is a way of being free of money.” – Albert Camus Money is one of the great contradictory things of our planet: it has no bearing on which values a person should hold, yet it crushes nations. You’ve got to spend money to make money. And the biggest money problems come from not […]