“Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.”
“I may not have money, but I am not poor.”
“Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.”
“No doesn t mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.”
“Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from his forehead. God made this money - the fresh air, too - for his children s use. He never made the difference between poor and rich.”
“The universe has more than enough business and wealth for everyone—way more than enough.”
“I d rather try and fail than quit and not do shit.”
“Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings.”
“The awareness that ‘money will get spent’ must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That’s why it was told to spend money, so that they can be free from greed and they can give it again and again.”
“Earning money from, and supporting, a system that keeps these people in poverty in the first place and then gives them some of the profits in the form of strings-attached aid or World Bank and IMF loans is no more ridiculous than Shell or Esso giving Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth £10,000 to help clear up the destruction that they inevitably cause. Would it not be better not to cause the destruction in the first place?”
“Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.”
“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society’s so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I’m not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it’s not just me.”
“The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One s focused awareness (upayog) is where he has ‘interest’!”
“People live for two reasons. There are those who live for the Soul; such people are very rare. All others live for money. All day is spent for money, money, money!”
“Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading.”
“We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.”
“It s easy to make money, a lot tougher to make a difference”