“May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around you. Sai, I am cold because I am saving to buy land. That hour will save you three cents worth of coal... When you are alone at night, do not light the lamp. Sit in the darkness and dream awhile. Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its value in pennies in the bank. The money will grow. Someday there will be fifty dollars and somewhere on this long island is a piece of land that you may buy for that money.”
“Creating a home that makes you feel wonderful is a gift you give yourself that echoes through the rest of your life. A bedroom you love is one in which you want to have an organized, well-cared-for wardrobe, which means less money spent replacing your battered items. A happy, practical, smartly appointed kitchen is one you actually *want* to cook in, which means much less money spent eating out or ordering in. A chic and comfortable living room means more entertaining at home and embracing the lost art of dinner parties (always cheaper than doing drinks and a restaurant dinner!). Even a Zen, candle-filled, clean bathroom is one in which you want to spend time doing home spa treatments instead of feeling like you have to go somewhere expensive to feel beautiful. If you create a home that is most attuned to your life and somewhere you really enjoy being, everything benefits.”
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging ti it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
“Marianne replaces the yogurt pot in the freezer now and asks Joanna if she finds it strange, to be paid for her hours at work - to exchange, in other words, blocks of her extremely limited time on this earth for the human invention known as money.”
“Money without time is next to meaningless.”
“If you are paying someone to motivate you (seriously), you should rather pay to a psychiatrist.”
“He called me careless because he didn t have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did.”
“When you did something for the money, you only get what you want. But, if you did something because you merely love it, you will get everything.”
“The more liquid cash you have in your account the more power you have to seize opportunities as they present to you. Money will always attract more money.”
“Money money money Water water water”
“Atlanta must not lead the South to dream of material prosperity as the touchstone of all success; already the fatal might of this idea is beginning to spread; it is replacing the finer type of Southerner with vulgar money-getters; it is burying the sweeter beauties of Southern life beneath pretence and ostentation. For every social ill the panacea of Wealth has been urged,—wealth to overthrow the remains of the slave feudalism; wealth to raise the “cracker” Third Estate; wealth to employ the black serfs, and the prospect of wealth to keep them working; wealth as the end and aim of politics, and as the legal tender for law and order; and, finally, instead of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, wealth as the ideal of the Public School.”
“They say money doesn t buy happiness. Well neither does poverty.”
“Though money cannot buy wisdom, but can a wise person.”
“A wise seeks the knowledge and a fool seeks the money.”
“Que absurda existencia la nuestra! —pensaba—. La desdicha, el dinero, Dolokhov, el odio, el honor..., todo eso no es nada...”
“Certainly since the counter-culture hippie movement in the 1970s, anti-materialism has been commonplace among witches and magicians. It is a noble tactic and one that works if you do it whole-heartedly. The problem is that most people don’t do it whole-heartedly. If you’re going to do it, you really need to do it. There are only two ways this has been a successful approach: become a monk or nun, or become a homeless wanderer. Anything short of this is just kidding yourself. Thinking that merely working at a coffeeshop or not wearing a suit is a non-materialistic lifestyle is just the worst of both worlds. If we cannot serve money, and we cannot avoid money, that really leaves only one option: to master it.”
“May I ask how you found that out, Madam?” “Oh, one hears things,” Madam said lightly. “One just has to hold money up to one’s ear.”