An extremely wealthy man, reflecting on his business career and the life it brought him, said: ""If you go into business with the idea of satisfying all your wants, your greed will erect for you…
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Biographer Philip Guedella often lectured on the art of writing biography. He used to say that a biographer’s most difficult task is finding out what kind of person his subject really was. And then he…
There is the story about a man who was moving overseas. His life’s savings were tucked away in a big money belt he wore around his waist. On the first night of his journey the…
Some people find out who there real friends are precisely when they need them the most. A man lost his entire fortune, suddenly, as the result of one bad investment. The man’s wife confided in…
A young mother was watching a television news program with her eight-year-old son. The newscaster reported on the stock market, saying, “The value of the dollar is up.” The boy then turned to his mother…
A character named “Mr. Pump” appears in a novel by A.A. Milne called “Two People.” At one point in the novel, Mr. Pump, an important London publisher, is described as follows, ...Mr. Pump was not…
The three sons of a lawyer, a doctor, and a minister, respectively, were talking about how much money their fathers earned. The lawyer’s son said, “My father goes into a court on a case and…
“. . . in the last days there will come times of stress. For we will be lovers of self, lovers of money . . . swollen with conceit . . . holding the form…
“As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing” (Matthew 13:22).…
ETHICS SIMPLIFIED A father was explaining ethics to his son who was about to go into business: "Suppose a woman comes in and orders $100 worth of material. You wrap it up and give it…
THE GRASS MAY NOT BE GREENER "I sit in my house in Buffalo and sometimes I get so lonely it's unbelievable. Life has been so good to me. I've got a great wife, good kids,…
SCAM OF THE MONTH CLUB Recently Psychology Today had a contest they called Scamarama, asking their readers to send in a creative scam. In the Mar, 84 issue they printed their winners. This one took…
DO UNTO OTHERS, ET C. An Irishman was down on his luck and was panhandling on Fifth Avenue before the annual St. Patrick's Day parade got underway in New York City. As a couple strolled…
FREE, INDEED! The warranty on a new color TV set had no sooner run out than the set started causing trouble. The lady of the house called the company and they sent a man to…
MAKING MONEY If you make money at poker, that's gambling. If you make it playing bridge, it's a social activity. If you make it outguessing the commodities, that's a miracle. Funny, Funny World
BUDGETS A budget is a theological document. It indicates who or what we worship.
SMALL WONDER Two Irishmen who were traveling in the Holy Land came to the Sea of Galilee. They discovered that it would cost them $50 each to cross the lake by boat. They cried out…
ROCKEFELLER The story is told by the chief accountant for one of the wealthiest men who ever lived -- John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Someone asked the accountant one day, "How much did John D. leave?…
FIRST, THEY GAVE OF THEMSELVES Dr. W. L. Stidger asked a young man to recount his most exciting adventure during the war. His reply was as follows: "We were in the submarine zone and knew…
FORBIDDEN WORD The denominational headquarters were making some video tapes for use as a resource in local churches. The theme of the series was stewardship. Attempting to approach the theme with a humorous twist, this…
