Financial Values Quotes

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place it has in our society. On the other hand, poor people validate their financial ineptitude by using irrelevant comparisons. They'll argue, "Well, money isn't important as love." Now, is that comparison dumb or what? What's more important, your arm or your leg? Maybe they're both important.

I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it.

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

When money becomes more important than any other standard, then we're all in trouble.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

When we're dealing with money in relationships, when we're dealing with money in our personal lives, when we're dealing with money in our families, the flow of money in a family represents the value system under which that family operates.

The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.

Do I appreciate my wealth? Absolutely, yes. I'm trying to embed in my children's heads that if you don't earn it, you don't appreciate it.

Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.

Budgets are moral documents. When you put your budget on the table, we see what you really are.

I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

When you are young "money" is not the same.

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

Certain money is not always good money. It could be just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, if you have your priorities in check then for the most part it's easy.