Ethical Spending Quotes

You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?

I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.

I have a desire to help animals, the question of whether it makes financial sense, it's my money and I get to do what I want with it. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life.

Budgets are moral documents. When you put your budget on the table, we see what you really are.

Your money is power, so be aware of the products you're buying and the companies you're supporting to make sure you're helping the companies that are leading the way in sustainability.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.