Chrematistics Quotes & Sayings

It is not about what you like, it is about what life demands. It is the demand of life and you must supply it. — Sunday Adelaja

If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at. — Ivanka Trump

The newest song which the singers have,' they will be afraid that he may be praising, not new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; for any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited. So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him; - he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. Yes, — Plato

Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion. — Frederick Lenz

When you have no future, you live in the past. — John Grisham

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid. — Donatella Versace

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life. — Kristen Wiig

Oikonomia is the science or art of efficiently producing, distributing, and maintaining concrete use values for the household and community over the long run. Chrematistics is the art of maximizing the accumulation by individuals of abstract exchange value in the form of money in the short run. — Wendell Berry

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick. — Ann Patchett

Did you know everyone thinks that one day they might be a millionaire? Like that's a lot of money. They have no idea. They don't want to be a superhero. They just want to be like me. — Anonymous

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind. — Danica McKellar

In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken. — Billy Joel

The promise of American capitalism is that it makes people richer, freer and more independent. But since the introduction of Fed, the currency in which Americans keep score has so addled the figures, we scarcely know if we are winning or losing. The dollar we knew as a child - in the 1950's - is only worth a tenth as much today. — Bill Bonner

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots. — Ger Duany

It's just that if I'd had any guts at all, I wouldn't have gone back to college at all this year. I don't know. I mean it's all the most incredible farce. — J.D. Salinger

The white man gets all the best catchphrases! — Eddie Murphy