12 Great Money Quotes for Our Present Situation

Lately, it seems like the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq, and Standard & Poors indices are plummeting on a monthly basis, let alone by the week, day, hour or even minute. Asinine decisions have been made in what products are being made and also in the spreading thin of investment capital with reckless overexpansion.

Our financial institutions, automobile manufacturers, and many other industries have been run by greedy buffoons who are more interested in seeing how much money they can bilk from the system in shamefully exorbitant bonuses than in maintaining a great work force.

After all is said and done, those same CEOs beg our Federal government for bailout money. Now, even more good money has been thrown after bad...with virtually no concessions on how to surrender their abominable ways and become fiscally responsible.

Also without blame is every person or couple who is told by a lender that a house of a certain cost can be affordable, and they were unwilling to settle for a house that cost considerably less than that amount. The same goes for overextending credit in the purchase of cars, entertainment centers and other prestigious toys that people simply couldn't live without.

This is all about collectively living beyond our means with individual debt, corporate debt and also whopping debts amassed by our municipalities, states and Federal government. And now, all the bills are coming due.

In the spirit of our current financial situation, I present 12 great money quotes for your reading pleasure. Perhaps these quotes, from www.quotationspage.com will help all of us get a better perspective on things.

1) "Look to your health, and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience. For health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of...a blessing money can't buy." -Izaak Walton

2) "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." -Benjamin Franklin

3) "Make money your God, and it will plague you like the devil." -Henry Fielding

4) "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." -Jonathan Swift

5) "The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket." -Kin Hubbard

6) "Never spend your money before you have it." -Thomas Jefferson

7) "It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand." -Suze Orman

8) "For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." -1 Timothy 6:10, The Bible

9) "You know it's funny, when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." --Tupac Shakur, "Keep Ya Head Up" song

10) "The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life." -Henry Ford

11) "I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." -Peter Cooper

12) "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -P.J. O'Rourke