People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
Money is easy to hide.
I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.
We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.
A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.
Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.
My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.
It is unlikely that others would even demand their money back overnight, for doing so would lead to the value of the dollar plummeting; what they would get back with be worth little. But what we are already seeing is an erosion of confidence of the dollar, which is seeing the dollar fall in value.
The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals. We played fraternity parties and kids' dances. They were called "lead outs" for kids in high school. We played wherever we could - in the down time when you weren't recording, people had to make money.
For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.
And when they start riding a lot of them have full time jobs and are taking vacation days to get by. All of a sudden it becomes so addictive because you're out there with a bunch of women just like yourself, well educated, taking your vacation days, not making any real money, but we're having a blast. And that's US cycling.
Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let me do what I want.
Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.