| #28: | A POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP is when small changes feed back into a system to create catastrophic ones. e.g.economy, global warming. Not good! |
| #40: | Wall Street Journal: "Rise of the Underground" (economy) http://bit.ly/gePdl - In bad times, many are joining it, including me! |
| #103: | Sober and caffeine-free for over five years! You just have to believe in yourself (not have any money to pay for it). |
| #104: | How much money do you spend on caffeine every day? Add it up! How much is that in a year? A lot less than cocaine, for sure! |
| #125: | If we took all the time, attention and money now wasted on spectator sports and turned them to productive uses, think of all we could do! |
| #277: | Why do singer-songwriters perform at all? They need the money! Committed artists would be creating new material, not rehashing the old. |
| #342: | It is not a sin to have money in the bank, only to spend it frivolously. |
| #415: | You can spend a lot of money trying to save money. Also time, which is far more valuable. |
| #416: | Is it really "green" to spend twice as much for a hybrid car that uses only slightly less gas? You could plant trees with the money! |
| #433: | The number of vain, unproductive hobbies you can engage in is limited only by the time and money at your disposal.. |
| #454: | I'm tired of companies that say, "We're here for YOU!" They're here to make money and if YOU get in the way, they'll pretend to care. |
| #497: | The world gives you two artistic choices: Either you do things well or you do them to make money. There is no middle ground. |
| #505: | Making just enough money doing things you believe in is better than making a lot of money doing things you don't. |
| #508: | Legalized gambling boosts the local economy only in the same sense that methamphetamine gives you energy. There's always a price to pay. |
| #663: | There is only one reason an artist would perform the same song over and over: money. Otherwise, they should be creating new songs. |
| #674: | That's not the national deficit. That's the money you could be saving by switching to Geico. The deficit is over THERE. |
| #685: | There's only one reason a mega music star goes on tour: for the money. If they truly loved music they'd be making it, not repeating it. |
| #708: | Couples can fight over money, but they can fight just as viciously over what to get rid of. "You can't throw that away!" |
| #745: | Money is poison to truth. In every field, you eventually have to choose between one or the other. |
| #847: | Money is a cruel and stupid master but it gives society structure. It lends people purpose when they might otherwise have none. |
| #867: | Never underestimate the destructive power of money - how having too much of it can destroy your foundations. |
| #879: | Whole Foods sells adjectives: "stone ground", "spring fed", "organic", "free range", etc., and people will pay big money for those words. |
| #905: | The fundamental right and responsibility of every individual is to regulate their own economy. |
| #908: | Ninety-nine percent of the consumer economy depends on the consumer having poor reasoning skills. |
| #916: | Luxury brands make you look stupid. If you waste money on them, you're going to feel foolish in the long run. |
| #956: | The northern lands are all about resource extraction: oil, forest products, and extracting money from the occasional tourist. |
| #1038: | There's not much money is supplying people's needs. Supplying their addictions is where you make the big bucks! |
| #1063: | Just because you're rich in money doesn't mean you're rich in time, and it's the time that will run out first. |
| #1067: | The key asset in life, you may discover too late, is not money but freedom. - #existentialism |
| #1068: | What space do you really need to live in? The optimum of economy is an 8 by 8-foot box, like an officer's cabin in a Navy ship. |
| #1081: | War is good for the economy! Without so many personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, unemployment would be far worse. Thank you, George Bush! |
| #1127: | Each individual has the right and responsibility to regulate his own economy -- meaning his relations with the outside world. |
| #1353: | Selling people things they don't need will eat you up over time. It will make you money but steal your soul. |
| #1363: | It is illegal to talk on a cellphone while driving in New York, but what about running a game show while drivng? That's Cash Cab! |
| #1368: | "These internet scams must make it difficult for legitimate Nigerian officials to share huge sums of money with strangers." RT @BadBanana |
| #1423: | My dental hygienist: "When I was single I had plenty of money, but now I'm married, two incomes, but no money. What happened?" |
| #1444: | It is good to be generous, but you also don't want to disrupt a local economy so it becomes unsustainable without you. |
| #1453: | A dark cloud over the economy is that consumers aren't wasting money like they used to. Come on people: Get out there and squander! |
| #1518: | One of the great existential struggles of modern life is finding work you like that you can also make enough money at. |
| #1719: | The main thing that keeps the economy going is an optimistic delusion: "If I buy this product my life will be better." |
| #1740: | Guy in Utah lives in a cave without money & blogs about it: http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com (From @wordymouth) A bit too New Agey for me! |
| #1812: | The US economy lost virtually no jobs in November! This suggests the overall economy is on the mend (even if it sucks where you are). |
| #1817: | What, there are moneychangers in the temple? I thought they WERE the temple! |
| #1844: | The adjustments forced by the Great Recession: lower wages, lower expectations, more frugality, no more free money. |
| #1919: | A less materialistic America is healthy for everyone. Unfortunately, our economy was built on absurd spending and adjustment will take time. |
| #1926: | @zeekatai I like the quote cuz I've lived it: Fame but no money. (Area 51 in 1990s) Now: no fame, no money! |
| #1929: | The real measure of wealth is not how much money you make but the freedom you have left after expenses. |
| #1955: | Happiness is walking into a high-end electronics store and seeing absolutely nothing you want, even if you had unlimited money. |
| #1956: | Capitalism, as a rule, is not a system that makes investors rich. It makes management rich as they con investors out of their money. |
| #2008: | Hypocrites offer prayers for Haiti but no money. Unfortunately, even money may have little effect on the entrenched chaos there. |
| #2043: | Freedom requires money, but not necessarily a lot. It is more a matter of how well you use the money you have. |
| #2045: | The future of health care is simple: People with more money will be able to buy a longer life. |
| #2046: | "Work" is a deal you make with someone else to provide your services in exchange for their money. It is submission to the goals of another. |
| #2053: | The tragedy of the rich is how they spend more money but usually end up with an inferior product. |
| #2076: | Your Deal with the Devil is making enough money to survive while still pursuing your own potential and upholding your own morality. |
| #2087: | Modern capitalism is not a system that makes investors rich. It makes management rich as they con investors out of their money. |
| #2116: | If you have more money than others, you should hide it. Otherwise, it will isolate you from reality and cut you off from your fellow man. |
| #2120: | "Adults are actually kids; kids with authority and money." @gauravkantgoel |
| #2122: | My new Homeless by Choice blog entry: "Money" http://bit.ly/dqXEPQ - Let's sit down and talk about the birds and the bees. |
| #2149: | The ultimate coin of life is not money but time. You only have so much of it, and money rarely buys you more. |
| #2150: | Once you have enough money to meet your needs, what is the point in making more? Time and freedom are more valuable. |
| #2168: | There are 2 ways to achieve relative wealth: make more money or cut costs. People tend to become trapped in the former, missing the latter. |
| #2308: | Fewer people would lose their money in the stock market if we used a more accurate name than "investing". How about "bubble riding"? |
| #2320: | The nature of the court system is to be obtuse and inaccessible. Help is available for those with money but not for those who need it most. |
| #2381: | There is no sin in having money in the bank, only in wasting it on the frivolous. |
| #2422: | The economy hasn't been the same since the bottom fell out of the sell-any-shit-to-anybody-no-need-to-pay-now-you-can-pay-later market. |
| #2441: | The behavior of the economy would be simple to calculate if not for the burden of debt. Same applies to people - on many different levels. |
| #2479: | If you borrow money from Emperor Ming you should pay it back as soon as possible because Wyoming. |
| #2532: | A little money can improve your life a lot, but a lot of money only improves it a little more. |
| #2584: | Our modern economy is powered by the delusions of people who have enough money but who think they need even more. |
| #2615: | The desperate problem of the rich is finding ways to spend their money. Fortunately, plenty of marketers will help them invent new needs. |
| #2620: | There's a huge difference between offering a service that makes sense to both parties and offering it only because you need the money. |
| #2631: | There's a limit to how much quality money can buy. You may get an adequate copy of whatever you ask for, but you can't buy inspiration. |
| #2674: | Money in excess of ones needs is more an enabler of dysfunction than a key to happiness. |
| #2719: | Fame, money, beauty, power: all can form a bubble around you that isolates you from accurate information. |
| #2722: | The Number One fear of the rich is that they'll be made fools of because of their money, which they know inside they don't deserve. |
| #2725: | There is no sin in having money in the bank, only in spending it frivolously. |
| #2746: | The use of the word "exceptional" in a print or TV ad means the product is intended for people with money to waste. |
| #2780: | The value of money (to you) is logarthmic, not linear. The more you have, the less it's worth. E.g. $1m is a lot but $10m isn't much better. |
| #2792: | The real coin of life is not money but time. It is getting more valuable by the minute, and when it is gone your money will be useless. |
| #2810: | Reporting from Wal-Mart: Now my whole cashews are made with sea salt and are "Health Baked with Fiber". Why must life be so complicated? |
| #2864: | You worry about money when you don't have enough of it, but once that need is solved, time becomes your worry. You can't buy more of it! |
| #2899: | Money is the greatest enabler of dysfunction. Too much of it tends to fund your addictions and isolate you from the effects of your actions. |
| #2936: | American marketing is based on the principle that if you add more adjectives to something, the suckers will pay more money for it. |
| #2944: | Noticed Wal-Mart cashier failed to scan a $30 item before she put it in my bag but I kept my mouth shut. Is that wrong? http://bit.ly/bVrXUt |
| #2953: | What fools do with their money is they acquire stuff, and these things become the prison that entraps them for the rest of their lives. |
| #3019: | The only benefit of wealth is the freedom to not worry about money. You'll find other things to worry about! |
| #3032: | Money can buy freedom, but more often it just buys temporary escape from responsibility. |
| #3078: | There's little dignity in selling people things you know they don't need. Unfortunately, that's where most of the money is. |
| #3114: | Giving people too much money is like giving them cocaine. They detach from reality, lose incentive and rely on it for all their highs. |
| #3115: | The big issue with money is not what you'll do when you have it but what you'll do when you run out of it again. |
| #3140: | Local governments don't just want tourists but DUMB tourists, because the stupid ones spend far more money. |
| #3194: | Flashback, 2008: Bad economy? Don't worry about me. I invested it all with Bernie Madoff. Nice, solid returns in good times and bad. |
| #3253: | The trouble with too much money is it often takes the place of brains, encouraging complicated and expensive solutions to simple problems. |
| #3293: | Want to destroy someone? You don't need guns or blackmail. Just give him instant fame or a huge amount of money and watch him self-destruct. |
| #3314: | When are you going to cash in your Karma Credits? Time is running out! |
| #3334: | Money is valuable only when you lack it, becoming worthless when you have an excess. The same is not true of time, which is never in excess. |
| #3356: | The preferred "solution" to problems in our society is whatever drug, gadget or service someone can advertise and make money from. |
| #3396: | tourist tax — n. the extra money you usually pay when you first arrive in a new place because you don't know ropes. |
| #3404: | One of life's greatest challenges is finding meaningful work you can also make enough money at. |
| #3487: | Financial markets may be fairly rational, but the core engine of the American economy is exploitation of the stupid. |
| #3508: | The American economy is dependent on selling people things they don't need, because there is little profit in selling things they do need. |
| #3524: | To destroy someone you don't need guns or knives. Just give him instant fame or a large sum of money and watch him destroy himself. |
| #3539: | Twitter Inc has created the perfect platform for NOT making any money. This can't last forever. How long before Google buys it? |
| #3565: | American industry is run by retards, people who already have enough money but who have nothing better to do than acquire more of it. |
| #3587: | Germans tend to shop wisely and save more money than they spend. It's this kind of anti-American attitude that's hobbling the world economy! |
| #3649: | When the bad times hit, we always look back in shame at all the money we wasted in the good times. |
| #3725: | How many silly ways can you think of to spend money when you have too much of it? That's America! |
| #3728: | Money improves happiness, but only to a point. RT @MailOnline: Key to happiness? Start with £50k a year salary http://bit.ly/bCqxjq |
| #3737: | Nothing is certain in life, but you can make a lot of money by selling people the illusion of certainty. |
| #3746: | Justice takes time and huge amounts of money, but it produces little for society apart from deterrence. |
| #3805: | The greatest luxury, worth more than money, is control of your own time. |