#om

…Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #money

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation. ↗

— Charles P. Kindleberger

#finance #financial-crises #money

Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#women #money

... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#casino #gambling #gaming #i-deal-to-plunder #louisiana

The best part about teamwork, is me collecting all the prize money. Hey, that’s what captains are for, right?
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— Jarod Kintz

#collecting #competition #prize-money #team #team-captain

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little. ↗

— Fred Schwed Jr.

#investing #investment #speculation #stocks #where-are-the-customer-s-yachts

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#economic #money #theory #money

Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might. ↗

— Laurie Frankel

#money

In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as they out to be; and when, in the end, everything became so good it almost began to be boring, then I was going to stuff my pockets with as much money as I could lay hands on and creep away, vanish in some cosmopolis and sit at a corner cafe and drink absinthe and enjoy seeing how everything went to the devil as soon as I wasn't on the scene any more. ↗

— Hjalmar Söderberg

#ambition #global-domination #money

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs? ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#compassion #current #future #hoarding #justice