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21 Matches Found.
- James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish Statesman, Historian
It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.
- H. W. Brands, in his biography of Benjamin Franklin.
Wealth still failed to impress him; the purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which was useful and interesting.
- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer
Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963) English Novelist
We used to lodge in the same house with a Russian Jew, who was a furrier. That man was interested in money, if you like. It was a passion, an enthusiasm, an ideal. He could have led a comfortable, easy life and still have made enough money to put something by for his old age. But for his high abstract ideal of money he suffered more than Michelangelo ever suffered for his art. He used to work nineteen hours a day, and the other five he slept, lying under his bench, in the dirt, breathing into his lungs the stink and the broken hairs. He is now very rich indeed and does nothing with his money, doesn't want to do anything, doesn't know what one does with it. He desires neither power nor pleasure. His desire for lucre is purely disinterested. He reminds me of Brownings 'Grammarian". I have great admiration for him.
- Antic Hay, page 20
- Ingva Kamprad, founder of Ikea
An idea without a price tag has no meaning.
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-American Writer and Philosopher
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose , if he's evaded the choice of what to seek.
- Emile Henry Gauvreay
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
- Warren Buffett (1930-) American Investor
Now, speculation – in which the focus is not on what an asset will produce but on what the next fellow will pay for it – is neither illegal, immoral, nor un-American. But it is not a game in which Charlie and I wish to play. We bring nothing to the party, so why should we expect to take anything home?
- alluding to why he and his partner avoid speculation.
- Ron Carroll, fundraiser
Money is energy in a portable form.
- Jane Jacobs
...without creativity, ...,there is really very little, if any, "progress" that money can buy.
- Jane Jacobs
...the sheer purposefulness and interest of the work, as a quality apart from its uses, exerts an immense attraction. ...It may be that many people prefer involvement in bad purposes and wicked creations to aimlessness and boredom in their occupations..
- Jane Jacobs
economic development, no matter when or where it occurs, is profoundly subversive of the status quo.
- Jane Jacobs
The primary economic conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.
- Jane Jacobs
In human history, most people in most places most of the time have existed in stagnant economies.
- Jane Jacobs
Conformity and monotony, even when they are embellished with a froth of novelty, are not attributes of developing and economically vigorous cities.
- Somerset Mauham
There is nothing so degrading as constant aniexty about one's means of livelihood. I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make use of the other five. Without an adequate income half of the possibilities of life are shut off. The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you earn. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. Thye do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to presever one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent on his art for his subsisentence.
- Somerset Mauham
Philip had cultivated a certain disdain for idealism. He had always had a passion for life, and the idealism he had come across seemed for the most part a cowardly shrinking away from it. The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strenth to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain, and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows.
- Somerset Maugham
During his last year at St. Luke's Philip had to work hard. He was contented with life. He found it very comfortable to be heart-free and to have enough money for his needs. He had heard people speak contemptously of money: he wondered if they had ever had to do without it. He knew that the lack made a man, petty, mean, grasping; it distorted his character and cuased him to view the world from a vulgar angle; when you had to consider every penny, money became of grotesque importance: you needed a competence to rate it as its proper value.
- Christopher Baker sails to Costa Smeralda, and mixes with society
The thing about changeless perfect days is that you get kind of obsessed with their perfection. You think about hte perfect number of glasses of wine to drink at lunch, the perfect pillow for your head. It's the opposite of adventure: you try to keep anything that isn't perfect from ever happening.
- George Gissing
"Just fancy, if one got up in the morning with the thought that no reasonable desire that occurred to one throughout the day need remain ungratified! And that it would be the same, any day and every day, to the end of one's life! Look at those houses; every detail, within and without, luxurious. To have such a home as that!" "And they are empty creatures who live there."
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