Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 5:10
Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health.
- Joseph Prince
People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.
- John Maxwell
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.
- Gordon Hinckley
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.
- Andy Stanley
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Mark Twain
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
- William Barclay
Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."
- Hal Elrod
We've rejected the per-seat business model from day one. It's not because we don't like money, but because we like our freedom more! The problem with per-seat pricing is that it makes your biggest customers your best customers. With money comes influence, if not outright power.
- Jason Fried
Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.
- Edith Wharton
After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...
- Edith Wharton
Undine's white and gold bedroom, with sea-green panels and old rose carpet, looked along Seventy-second Street toward the leafless tree-tops of the Central Park. She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective. Beyond the Park lay Fifth Avenue—and Fifth Avenue was where she wanted to be!
- Edith Wharton
the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over? Isn't it fairer to look at them both as opportunities, which may be used either stupidly or intelligently, according to the capacity of the user?
- Edith Wharton