Money Personalities and Mysteries

I Ching is the oldest book in the world and one of the most important books in world literature. It contains the wisdom of millenia, which is still valid for present-day man as well. A picture tour…

The founder of the MoneyMuseum talks about his personal experience.

Do you handle money like Scrooge McDuck, Charlie Brown, Happy-Go-Lucky or a moneymaker? Try this test and find out.

You are living in a reality where the unity has fallen apart. That has generated the need to put the different poles together again, in order to create unity.

Serendipity is the most important money secret I know. The founder of the MoneyMuseum talks about his findings.

A man, who made a lot of money after selling a tech startup, offers a nuanced and insightful answer to the above-mentioned question. Published by an anonymous author in Business Insider.

Everybody talks about money, over what they have or over what they lack. Some people also talk about assets, about the wealth they would like to possess but do not have. Philosopher Andreas Urs Sommer takes us deeper into this labyrinthine subject.

Philosopher Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on four graphics by the artist Martin Schwarz, first pondering the elemental nature of the point. He then considers the invisible and the paradox of secrets, and finally shares his musings on the linked words “live” and “love.”

Text to the parable of the rich fool.

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Master, tell my brother to divide his inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you two?”

After her degree in food science, Susanne Schanz had the idea to start a gourmet catering service delivering fine meals to clients’ homes. With little in the way of money, but with plenty of energy, she set off to realize her dream.

Text to the parable of the Talents

The parable ends with those words: "Those who have will be given more, and will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."

Text to the parable of the widow's offering

Jesus sat across from the place where the offerings were made and watched the crowd give their money to the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “This poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

An article by the historian Ursula Kampmann What kind of person passionately assembles a coin collection, piece-by-piece, over years? A perfectionist, curiousity-driven, a speculator? With tongue slightly in cheek, the author examines the strange tribe of coin collectors.

Text to a parable of the laborers in the vineyard

The landowner replied, "Friend, I have done you no wrong ... Take what is yours, and be on your way ... May I not do as I wish with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?”

Text to a parable of price versus value (Zurich Bible, Markus 14)

While he was in Bethany, visiting the home of Simon, a woman came to the house with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head …

Text to the parable of the rich man (Zurich Bible, Mark 10)

Jesus then said, “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.“

This test reveals what your attitude to money is. So take part in it. It’s quite simple: a click of the mouse takes you from one statement about money to the next and express your opinion on it: http://moneypersonality.ch

This test reveals what your attitude to money is. So take part in it. It’s quite simple: a click of the mouse takes you from one statement about money to the next and express your opinion on it: http://moneypersonality.ch

Text to a parable of investing (Zurich Bible, Lukas 8)

A farmer went out to sow his seed … Still other seeds fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. And some seeds fell on good soil and yielded a crop a hundred times more than was sown.