The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.
I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'
People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.
Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.
Throwing money on the fire is normally not the solution to every problem. You put the fire out by listening to the people who are smarter than you are.
Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.
Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.
There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.
In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.
In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
What's worth doing is worth doing for money.
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don't riot when oil prices rise.
I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.
I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.
Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
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