#finance

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The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.


Allan Lokos


#business #compassion-love #finance #mindfulness #occupy

Our culture has at its core the idea that more is better. Many of us design our lives around this belief. And yet the underlying qualities that truly affect happiness are not advanced one whit by having more material things. More peace of mind is gained by allowing ourselves to be satisfied with what we already have. More joy is not bought; it is found in our hearts.


Karen Ramsey


#life-lessons #money-management #design

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible.


N.T. Wright


#finance #memory #recession #responsibility #experience

Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.


James Garfield


#control #depression #economy #finances #government

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.


Matt Taibbi


#government #politics #thievery #united-states #economy

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.


Warren Buffett


#inspirational-attitude #attitude

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.


Mason Cooley


#body #existence #health #money #social

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.


James L. Buckley


#along #being #campaign #campaign finance #conservative

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.


Epictetus


#consists #few #great #having #possessions

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.


Randy Alcorn


#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding